Quotes on Freedom

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.