Freedom Quotes - Page 3

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Freedom has never been free.

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.

The JCPOA can perhaps delay Iran's nuclear weapons program for a few years. Conversely, it has virtually guaranteed that Iran will have the freedom to build an arsenal of nuclear weapons at the end of the commitment.

The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

In our Constitution, it is said that we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. In my mind, unless that freedom is total, it is no freedom at all.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.