Freedom Quotes

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.