Freedom Quotes
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My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.
Booker Little
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All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.
Anastas Mikoyan
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We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.
Anastas Mikoyan
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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
Brennan Manning
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One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
Evan Wolfson
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I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
Howard Stern
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In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
Maria Semple
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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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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Then how about one kiss?” he said with a sexy grin. “Something to remember me by?” ...“I’ll give you something to remember me by,” I said. “The back of my head.” I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.
Ellen Schreiber
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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Harvey Milk
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Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
Bill Crawford
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullers
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From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.
Walt Whitman
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Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.
Anthony Lawlor
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You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
Elf Sternberg
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin
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In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.
Joseph Brodsky
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There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.
Michel Foucault
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Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.
Ella Leya