Freedom Quotes

"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"

"Freedom is living without chains"

"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Freedom isn't for wimps"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression"

Malcolm X, Activist

"American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted"

William J. Clinton, President

"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing"

Herodotus, Historian

"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"The work of art is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"We wish to work in total freedom"

Christo, Artist

"To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone"

Christo, Artist

"The freedom of every artist is essential"

Christo, Artist

"There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me"

Brian Molko, Musician

"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom"

Maya Lin, Architect

"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy"

John Bruton, Politician

"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read"

Albert Maltz, Author

"MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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