938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” — Pericles

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“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” — Stephen Covey

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“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.” — Luis Bunuel

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“There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.” — Dave Matthews

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“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.” — Frank Herbert

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“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“The only certain freedom's in departure.” — Robert Frost

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.” — Thomas Moore

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“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.” — Howard Zinn

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“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.” — Richard Branson

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“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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