Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Francine Rivers

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

Conor Oberst

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Georg Cantor

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Greg Fitzsimmons

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

Thomas Moore

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Ferdinand Marcos

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

Ram Dass

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Ram Dass

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Ram Dass

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

We would love to see these sites nominated to the Network to Freedom. I'm sure there are valid sites in Connecticut.

Kurt Vonnegut

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.

Ernest Renan

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Karl Marx

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Mary McCarthy

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Mark Twain

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Isaiah Berlin

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Isaiah Berlin

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Igor Stravinsky

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Gloria Steinem

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Harry S Truman

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

H. G. Wells

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

H. L. Mencken

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

H. L. Mencken

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.