freedom
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
14 sayings from Vladimir Lenin
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
21 views from William Wordsworth
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
3 quotes from Hans Christian Andersen
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
14 other sayings from Vladimir Lenin
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
6 other views from B. R. Ambedkar
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
4 quotes from Coretta Scott King
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
12 more wisdom & wit from Thornton Wilder
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
3 more quotes from Edward R. Murrow
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
20 more quotes from Herbert Spencer
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
14 thoughts from Vladimir Lenin
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
4 quotes from Charles Evans Hughes
While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.
14 other sayings from Vladimir Lenin
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
14 wisdom & wit from Clarence Darrow
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
18 sayings from Emile M. Cioran
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
6 other quotes from Rollo May
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
20 quotes from Herbert Spencer
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
6 sayings from Rollo May
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
18 other wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
4 quotes from Dean Acheson
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
14 views from Edward Gibbon
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
7 wisdom & wit from James Anthony Froude
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
22 views from Soren Kierkegaard
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
33 other views from Thomas Huxley
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
9 quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
45 other sayings from Bertrand Russell
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
16 other views from Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
16 views from Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
5 sayings from Moshe Dayan
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
21 other views from Malcolm X
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
35 more quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
21 other quotes from Karl Marx
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
21 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
22 other quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
11 other quotes from John Stuart Mill
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
21 quotes from Malcolm X
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
26 more wisdom & wit from Harry S. Truman
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
45 more sayings from Bertrand Russell
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
35 more thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
21 sayings from Malcolm X
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
7 other quotes from Thomas Moore
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
14 wisdom & wit from Golda Meir
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
6 more quotes from Mikhail Bakunin
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
6 more thoughts from Mikhail Bakunin
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21 views from Malcolm X
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is from within.
26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
47 sayings from George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
47 other views from George Orwell
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
17 views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
18 more quotes from Pearl S. Buck
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
59 more wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
6 sayings from Charles Kingsley
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
5 other quotes from Brigham Young
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
8 quotes from Stokely Carmichael
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
10 sayings from William Ralph Inge
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
10 other quotes from Emma Goldman
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
13 sayings from Dag Hammarskjold
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
2 other thoughts from Stanley Kubrick
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
45 views from Aldous Huxley
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
19 more wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
19 wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
19 views from Alexis de Tocqueville
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
7 quotes from John Quincy Adams
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
16 more quotes from Douglas Horton
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
6 thoughts from Karl Popper
Freedom is not enough.
24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
24 other quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
5 thoughts from Charles Horton Cooley
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
12 quotes from Bernard Baruch
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
2 quotes from Anna Julia Cooper
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
12 wisdom & wit from Bernard Baruch
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
9 thoughts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
2 views from Kwame Nkrumah
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
2 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Adams
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
4 other quotes from Roald Dahl
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
3 other quotes from David O. McKay
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
24 thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
2 quotes from Mary Renault
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
8 quotes from Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
8 views from Walter Lippmann
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
4 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Henderson
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
2 sayings from Shel Silverstein
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
9 more thoughts from Hannah Arendt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
36 wisdom & wit from Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
4 wisdom & wit from A. J. Liebling
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
33 wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
18 other thoughts from John Adams
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
8 thoughts from Frank Herbert
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
6 other sayings from William O. Douglas
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
33 wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
2 other thoughts from Michel Foucault
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
4 wisdom & wit from James Truslow Adams
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
16 other quotes from Denis Diderot
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
8 sayings from Frank Herbert
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
52 more wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
74 more sayings from Winston Churchill
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
14 other quotes from Hedy Lamarr
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
18 more quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
52 other views from Albert Camus
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
2 quotes from Friedrich Engels
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
6 views from Felix Frankfurter
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
29 more sayings from Friedrich Schiller
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
52 more quotes from Albert Camus
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
3 other wisdom & wit from Abbie Hoffman
Art is the daughter of freedom.
29 more views from Friedrich Schiller
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
25 other quotes from Will Durant
Freedom can occur only through education.
29 more quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
11 wisdom & wit from Aneurin Bevan
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
14 sayings from Muhammad Iqbal
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
4 quotes from Margaret Mitchell
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
25 other quotes from Will Durant
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
14 other quotes from Jim Morrison
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
4 quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
14 other quotes from Jim Morrison
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
5 views from Gianni Versace
None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.
5 other views from John Milton
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
36 other quotes from Lord Byron
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
2 quotes from Olof Palme
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I need this wild life, this freedom.
5 sayings from Zane Grey
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
12 other wisdom & wit from Simone de Beauvoir
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
26 more quotes from E. M. Forster
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
8 more sayings from Ernest Holmes
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
29 more wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
30 other thoughts from Virginia Woolf
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
10 thoughts from Tertullian
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
6 views from Edith Wharton
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
17 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Durrenmatt
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
17 more thoughts from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
5 quotes from E. Stanley Jones
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
2 quotes from Karel Capek
Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
10 thoughts from Ramakrishna
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
73 other wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
24 views from James Russell Lowell
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
7 more quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
30 wisdom & wit from George Washington
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
6 wisdom & wit from Charles Lindbergh
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
29 other thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
47 views from Abraham Lincoln
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
31 views from Thomas Paine
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
26 other thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
31 more quotes from Thomas Paine
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
3 quotes from James Otis
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
3 more views from Harriet Ann Jacobs
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
2 more quotes from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Freedom lies in being bold.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
6 other views from William Morris
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
27 more quotes from James Madison
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
8 thoughts from Vernon Howard
The only certain freedom's in departure.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
16 sayings from Erich Fromm
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
50 more views from Robert Frost
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
8 other wisdom & wit from Vernon Howard
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
4 quotes from Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
4 thoughts from Rosa Luxemburg
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.
4 wisdom & wit from Rosa Luxemburg
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
2 more quotes from Corliss Lamont
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
11 sayings from Henrik Ibsen
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
11 views from Henrik Ibsen
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
11 more thoughts from Henrik Ibsen
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
11 more wisdom & wit from Henrik Ibsen
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
8 other quotes from Vernon Howard