Freedom Quotes
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan – Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.
Amina Mama -
Freedom, security, convenience - choose two
Dan Geer
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You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.
Brian Morton -
Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion...
Bill Clinton -
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
Andrew Joseph Galambos -
Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.
Alice Steinbach -
Freedom is the ability to exercise your will within your rights without the threat of force from anyone else.
Adam Kokesh
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All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna Brackett -
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
William Faulkner -
It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.
Ben Robertson -
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
Albert Camus -
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
Isadora Duncan -
There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.
Thomas Sowell -
Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.
Allen Wheelis -
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
Epictetus -
Freedom, like charity, begins at home.
Anne Roe -
Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.
Anne Mallory -
To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.
Eric Foner -
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
Fausto Cercignani -
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
Gerald Seymour -
Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Erica Jong