Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Norman Mailer

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

Norman Mailer

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

Oscar Arias

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Origen

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Octavia Butler

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Emile M. Cioran

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Emile M. Cioran

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Ellen Key

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Epictetus

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Epicurus

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Epictetus

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Brooke Shields

I think once you have children, you just don't have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!

Everyone can take pride in this new facility. But it is a pride tempered with humility, the humility of knowing what these new systems will be used for. They will be used for safeguarding our freedom and supporting our troops on the battlefield.

Norm Chow

Steve will have more freedom to audible. Why not? The guy's been in the league 10 years.

It's because of you that Iraqis are experiencing freedom for the first time. And once they taste that freedom they won't want to let it go.

Rebecca Ferguson

It's sad really, I think 'Freedom' would've done better, but it got shelved because of the pregnancy, so it might be something that might get revisited in the future; who knows?

do everything in their power to try to stop the march of freedom. And our troops are ready for it.

Jenny Lewis

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

Sophia Amoruso

I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.

John Milton

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants

Jim McMahon

Not at all, I mean I understand what these guys have gone through. Not only them, but the generations before them. Without them, we couldn't have the freedoms that we have today.

When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don't typically mean, 'Let's protect human rights, individual rights, let's guarantee the freedom of the Internet,'

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Nelson Mandela

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Nelson Mandela

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nhat Hanh

Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

Nhat Hanh

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.