Freedom Quotes

"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

"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

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"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

"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

"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"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

"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees"

John Bruton, Politician

"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more"

John Adams, President

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare"

James Madison, President

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"

James Madison, President

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress"

Helene Deutsch, Psychologist

"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom"

Larry David, Actor

"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

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