Freedom Quotes

"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms"

Ruggiero Ricci, Musician

"The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality"

Tarja Halonen, Statesman

"A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law"

Kurt Huber, Professor

"There's something contagious about demanding freedom"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had"

James Bovard, Author

"I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration"

Ice Cube, Musician

"If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"

Mother Jones, Activist

"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance"

John Cale, Musician

"I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving"

Pete Domenici, Politician

"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference"

Marc Morial, Politician

"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind"

Richard Price, Writer

"Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

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