Freedom Quotes
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Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
Christopher McCandless
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant
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I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.
Eliza R. Snow
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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.
William Blake
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When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.
Chris Cooper
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My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.
Alvaro Enrigue
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Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When somebody takes a stand for principles, no matter what side they are on, they have my admiration. And when they take a stand for principles of freedom and refusing o give up your constitutional rights, then I think the guy is kind of a modern American hero.
Bill Whittle
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They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Audie Murphy
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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
Albert Camus
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On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
Laurence Fishburne
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I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.
Saburo Sakai
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Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of but never allowed myself to fully imagine.
Chelsea Manning
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If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
Andy Garcia
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I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
Vissarion Belinsky
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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.
Benjamin Zephaniah
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
Joanna Lumley
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The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them-but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey.'
Matthew Stover
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We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
Bob Menendez
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Even ashes are a part of your freedom.
Sarah Waters