Freedom Quotes
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
Brennan Manning
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They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.
Demetri Martin
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
Ahmed Ben Bella
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Thank God for TNA: we've had the creative freedom to do what we want to do.
Jeff Hardy
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It’s not only corruption that distorts the utopian impulse when it begins to take some specific social shape. The prospect of more freedom stirs anxiety. We want it, but we fear it; it goes against our most deeply ingrained Judeo-Christian definitions of morality and order. At bottom, utopia equals death is a statement about the wages of sin.
Ellen Willis
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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.
Plato
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There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne
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If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
Arthur C. Clarke
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis
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Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
Chuck Hagel
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We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
Boris Yeltsin
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One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
John Naisbitt
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One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
Charli XCX
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Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
Peter Drucker
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Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.
L. Ron Hubbard
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Franz Grillparzer
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Epictetus
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Every American has the freedom to choose a particular lifestyle, but that doesn't mean every American has to embrace a particular lifestyle as equally worthy.
Ander Crenshaw
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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
David O. McKay
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Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
Charles Duhigg
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
Leila Slimani