Freedom Quotes
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I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
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The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
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Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom...
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Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.
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The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.
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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
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Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
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Freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
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Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.
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Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.
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While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.
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Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.
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Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.
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An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic.
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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.
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To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.
