Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Rizal

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Islom Karimov

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

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.

Cole Porter

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

Clement Attlee

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

Cynthia Ozick

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

E. W. Howe

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

E. W. Howe

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Alan J. Pakula

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.

Malcolm X

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Bartlett Sher

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Abu Abbas

It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

John Stuart Mill

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

John Dryden

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

You have had seven and one half years of freedom that you never should have had.

Judith Jamison

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

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?

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.