938 private quotes tagged freedom

“The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.”— Silvio Berlusconi

“The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.”— Ai Weiwei

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”— Benjamin Britten

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”— Marilyn Monroe

“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”— Roberto Cavalli

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”— Frederick Douglass

“You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.”— Ron Paul

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”— Kevyn Aucoin

“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”— Malcolm X

“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.”— Milton Friedman

“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.”— Bobby Sands

“Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.”— Ron Paul

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”— W. Somerset Maugham

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”— Viktor E. Frankl

“When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.”— Vladimir Lenin

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”— Maximilien Robespierre

“Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.”— Robert Wyatt

“Human beings crave freedom at their core.”— John Ensign

“I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.”— Miguel Jontel Pimentel

“With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.”— Dan Lipinski

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”— Jim Morrison

“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”— Epictetus

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”— George Washington Carver

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”— Jim Morrison

“Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, m--------e, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.”— Madonna Ciccone