Freedom Quotes | Quotes about Freedom

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Freedom Quote #1

& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.
have strength in freedom.
L V HALL

Freedom Quote #2

''Americans used to roar like lions for liberty;

now we bleat like sheep for security.''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #3

''Freedom is a gift to us from someone else's sacrifice''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #4

''He who gives up freedom for security will end up with neither.''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #5

''if you are wise, you will consider the world an illusion and enjoy all the blessings that life has to offer, only then you'll escape from it sufferings''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #6

''None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #7

''The corrupt fear us,the honest support us,the heroic join us.''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #8

''To suppress free speech is a double wrong.It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #9

''When your accomplishments are acknowledged by those who doubted your success ,then the greatest benefit of your success has been achieved''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #10

'Things we say should be chosen with great caution, especially our words, because others will hear them and be motivated by them, then use it against us to do good or bad''
Unknown
Freedom Quote #11

(A Free Market in Education: The Answer to Prayer, And Other Issues)
No matter where you are on the issue, there is no solution to it within a government school context, only perpetual conflict. The answer involves choice, competition and private alternatives. If you don't like what a business offers, you don't argue endlessly about it; you walk across the street. Why is this principle so complicated for some people?
Lawrence W. Reed
Freedom Quote #12

(about William Blake)

[Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and passivity and imaginative death.

And what we so often call reason and think is so fine, is not intelligence or understanding at all, but just this: it is arguing from our *memory* and the sensations of our body and from the warnings of other people, that if we do such and such a thing we will be uncomfortable. It won't pay. People will think it is silly. No one else does it. It is immoral.

But the only way you can grow in understanding and discover whether a thing is good or bad, Blake says, is to do it. Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

For this Reason as Blake calls it (which is really just caution) continually nips and punctures and shrivels the imagination and the ardor and the freedom and the passionate enthusiasm welling up in us. It is Satan, Blake said. It is the only enemy of God. For nothing is pleasing to God except the invention of beautiful and exalted things. And when a prominent citizen of his time, a logical, opining, erudite, measured, rationalistic, Know-it-all, warned people against mere enthusiasm, Blake wrote furiously (he was a tender-hearted, violent and fierce red-haired man): Mere enthusiasm is the All in All!
Brenda Ueland
Freedom Quote #13

(about William Blake)

As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.

And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy.

...He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven.
Brenda Ueland
Freedom Quote #14

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute
Bruce Sterling
Freedom Quote #15

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)

[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.

We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ...

We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.
Elizabeth I Tudor
Freedom Quote #16

***********MY AIRMAN*********
I give my heart for you to take
hold it dearly love it always and dont forsake

So a piece of me will always be near
during times of loneliness doubt and fear

I'll pray for you each and every night
while your gone away for our country's fight

I have lots of respect for you
because of the bravery you have to do what you do

Its just what you do each day .It's not science fiction
because a AIRMAN is a person of INTEGRITY Courage and Conviction

I want you to come home in perfect health
but your a AIRMAN you put SERVICE BEFORE YOURSELF

Your a true AIRMAN, EXCELLENCE IN ALL YOU DO
thats just one reason why I LOVE YOU

so please be careful and watch your back
as you do for our nation while were under attack

<3 Integrity Service Before Self and Excellence In All We Do
Unknown
Freedom Quote #17

-The little comfort of love?
-Is that comfort so little?
-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
Tennessee Williams
Freedom Quote #18

-We need more love, to supersede hatred, -We need more strength,
to resist our weaknesses,
-We need more inspiration,
to lighten up our innermind.
-We need more learning,
to erase our ignorance,
-We need more wisdom,
to live longer and happier,
-We need more truths, to suppress deceptions,
-We need more health,
to enjoy our wealth,
-We need more peace, to stay in harmony with our brethren
-We need more smiles,
to brighten up our day,
-We need more hero's, and not zero's,
-We need more change of ourselves, to change the lives of others,
-We need more understanding,
to tackle our misunderstanding,
-We need more sympathy,
not apathy,
-We need more forgiveness,
not vengeance,
-We need more humility to be lifted up,
-We need more patience and not undue eagerness,
-We need more focus, to avoid distraction,
-We need more optimism,
not pessimism
-We need more justice,
not injustice,
-We need more facts, not fiction,
-We need more education,
to curb illiteracy,
-We need more skills, not incompetence,
-We need more challenges,
to make attempts,
-We need more talents,
to create the extraordinary,
-We need more helping hands,
not stingy folks,
-We need more efforts,
not laziness,
-We need more jokes, to forget our worries, -We need more spirituality,
not mean religion,
-We need more freedom,
not enslavement,
-We need more peacemakers,
not revolutionaries...with these, we create an heaven on earth.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Freedom Quote #19

. . . a constitution, intended to
endure for ages to come, and
consequently, to be adapted to the
various crises of human affairs.
John Marshall
Freedom Quote #20

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
Carl Sagan
Freedom Quote #21

i stuck my middle finger to the world.....
Unknown
Freedom Quote #22

Only in the circus, life will get better
Unknown
Freedom Quote #23

[Asked by an audience member at a public Q&A session] Considering that atheism cannot possibly have any sense of 'absolute morality', would it not then be an irrational leap of faith – which atheists themselves so harshly condemn – for an atheist to decide between right and wrong?
[Dawkins] Absolute morality...the absolute morality that a religious person might profess would include, what, stoning people for adultery? Death for apostasy? [...] These are all things which are religiously-based absolute moralities. I don't think I want an absolute morality; I think I want a morality that is thought out, reasoned, argued, discussed, and based on – *(jokingly)* you could almost say intelligent design. [...] If you actually look at the moralities that are accepted among modern people – among 21st century people – we don't believe in slavery anymore; we believe in equality of women; we believe in being gentle; we believe in being kind to animals...these are all things which are entirely recent. They have very little basis in Biblical or Koranic scripture. They are things that have developed over historical time; through a consensus of reasoning, sober discussion, argument, legal theory, political and moral philosophy. These do not come from religion. To the extent that you can find the 'good bits' in religious scriptures, you have to cherry-pick. You search your way through the Bible or the Koran, and you find the occasional verse that is an acceptable profession of morality – and you say, look at that! That's religion!...and you leave out all the horrible bits. And you say, 'Oh, we don't believe that anymore, we've grown out of that.' Well, of course we've grown out of it. We've grown out of it because of secular moral philosophy and rational discussion.
Richard Dawkins
Freedom Quote #24

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom Quote #25

What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.

They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.

I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.

Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.
Brandon Sanderson
Freedom Quote #26

Yes, it’s tough, it’s tough, that goes without saying. But isn’t waiting itself and longing a wonder, being played on by wind, sun, and shade?
Annie Dillard
Freedom Quote #27

Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream till the current ends
and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
can seldom see through his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
Maya Angelou
Freedom Quote #28

If Death Is Kind

Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.

We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
Sara Teasdale
Freedom Quote #29

Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?

The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.
Alan Moore
Freedom Quote #30

This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, the assault of real things, living and still, with shapes and powers under the sky- this is my city, my culture, and all the world I need.
Annie Dillard

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