Quotes on Freedom

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street,_x000D_ Pointing that plastic finger at me,_x000D_ Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,_x000D_ But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.