Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're validating, we're recognizing, that's freedom of speech.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

John Trudell

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love).

Sam Rainsy

the respect of fundamental rights, constitutional rights, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of movement.

There's a freedom being in the air. It's a lot of fun.

Casey Wilson

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Kevin Smith

There's much more freedom on the page. You can invoke obscure things that, in a movie, an exec will take out to make it palatable to the mainstream.

Terence

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Nicolas Chamfort

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Ralph Nader

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Rajneesh

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

Rajneesh

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

Sheena Iyengar

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish

Septima Poinsette Clark

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

Oscar Wilde

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Lydia M. Child

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Michel de Montaigne

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Michel de Montaigne

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michael Kimmelman

The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.

Mark Twain

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Mark Twain

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Mason Cooley

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Mason Cooley

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

Michael Collins

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Mencius

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

Mencius

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.