938 private quotes tagged freedom

“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”— Margaret Atwood

“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.”— Jonathan Sacks

“I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.”— Ann Romney

“I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.”— Adam Carolla

“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”— Bernard Baruch

“I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.”— Miuccia Prada

“Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.”— Walter Koenig

“I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.”— Natan Sharansky

“The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.”— Paul Stanley

“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.”— Norman Thomas

“Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.”— John Bolton

“My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.”— Tim Robbins

“If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.”— Richard Stallman

“You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.”— Haruki Murakami

“If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.”— Aung San Suu Kyi

“They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.”— Daryl Gates

“Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.”— Hugo Black

“But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.”— Jane Campion

“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.”— Jimmy Wales

“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.”— Michelangelo Antonioni

“I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.”— Gijs de Vries

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”— Charles Horton Cooley

“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”— Charles Horton Cooley

“When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.”— Gerry Adams

“I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.”— Jane Fonda