Freedom Quotes

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

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.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.