c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
— Bryant H. McGill
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
— Fernando Flores
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. 
— Andrea Dworkin
The American dream is about freedom.
— Nancy Pelosi
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
— Harry Browne
Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
— John Lydon
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
— Alan Dershowitz
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.
— Matisyahu
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
— Zygmunt Bauman
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
— Diogenes
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
— Elbert Hubbard
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
— Ernest Renan
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
— H. L. Mencken
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
— Peter Ustinov
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
— Vernon Howard
Liberation is not deliverance.
— Victor Hugo
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
— Walter Cronkite
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
— Mike Tyson
Freedom is never given it is won. 
— A. Philip Randolph
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
— Friedrich Engels
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
— Stockwell Day
My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
— Malala Yousafzai
I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
— Malala Yousafzai
One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.
— Veronica Webb
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
— Aldous Huxley
Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
— Molly Ivins
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
— Noam Chomsky
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
— Emily Robison
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
— Alan Dean Foster
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
— Michel Foucault
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
— Maya Lin
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
— Thurgood Marshall
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
— Ma Jian
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
— Richard M. Nixon
To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.
— John Ralston Saul
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
— Thomas Paine
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
— Germaine Greer
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
— Yasser Arafat
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
— Gordon Parks
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
— Lester Maddox
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
— Ron Paul
The American Dream is about freedom.
— Rick Mears
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
— Rand Paul
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
— Ismail Haniyeh
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.
— Steven Hatfill
I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.
— Rand Paul
I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
— Narendra Modi
When people are like, 'College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!' I didn't feel that way. My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn't as psyched about going to the frats.
— Emily Ratajkowski
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
— Bob Beckel
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.
— Lincoln Kirstein
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
— Archibald MacLeish
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
— Newt Gingrich
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. 
— David Riesman
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
— Walt Whitman
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
— Albert Camus
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
— Erich Fromm
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
— Bryant H. McGill
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
— Bill Owens
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
— Kwame Nkrumah
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.
— Ian Smith
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
— Isaiah Berlin
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
— John Stuart Mill
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. 
— Ramakrishna
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
— Andrew Shue
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
— Chris Patten
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
— Ibrahim Babangida
And freedom is what America means to the world.
— Audie Murphy
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
— Colin Firth
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
— Anita Roddick
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.
— Sandra Cisneros
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
— Charles Lindbergh
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
— Bertrand Russell
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
— Vic Snyder
Freedom is a universal value.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
— Paul Walker
I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
— Michael Phelps
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
— Desmond Tutu
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
— Shimon Peres
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
— Damien Hirst
Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.
— Demi Moore
We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
— Guy Finley
For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
— T. Harv Eker
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
— Ted Cruz
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
— Louis Sullivan
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
— Niall Ferguson
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.
— Edward Snowden
Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
— Noel Gallagher
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
— Yves Rossy
I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.
— Marc Warren
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
— Tom Robbins
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
— Steve Wozniak
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
— James Bovard
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
— Carine Roitfeld
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
— Langston Hughes
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
— Salman Rushdie
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
— Archibald MacLeish
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
— Mark Lloyd
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
— Hannah Arendt
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
— Vladimir Lenin
There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
— Cornel West
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
— David O. McKay
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
— Otto Schily
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
— Clarence Darrow
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
— Gary Hamel
Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
— Kenny Loggins
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
— Jalal Talabani
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
— Richard Dreyfuss
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
— Kenneth Branagh
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
— Steven Biko
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
— William Lloyd Garrison
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
— Michael J. Fox
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
— Robert Jackson
The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
— Gilbert Baker
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
— Peter Marshall
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
— Marilyn Monroe
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
— Lynn Barber
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
— Charles B. Rangel
I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.
— Mary Quant
Freedom has never been free.
— Medgar Evers
The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration even in wartime are gradually ruining Europe. That's why I believe Brexit is good for British freedom, political autonomy, and the survival of democratic capitalism.
— Lawrence Kudlow
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
— Lech Walesa
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
— Jimmy Wales
I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.
— Harvey Milk
Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
— Sylvia Plath
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
— Quentin Tarantino
The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.
— Ronda Rousey
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
— Nelson Mandela
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
— Victor Vasarely
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.
— Ricardo Montalban
I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
— Felix Baumgartner
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
— Livy
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
— Mother Jones
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
— Ernest Holmes
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
— Hassan Nasrallah
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
— Alexander Meiklejohn
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
— Emperor Hirohito
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
— Condoleezza Rice
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
— Os Guinness
Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
— Dan Gable
I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.
— Laura Mvula
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
— Larry Craig
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
— Rollo May
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
— Bobby Sands
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
— Rollo May
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
— Charles Dickens
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
— Edmund Burke
Freedom is from within.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.
— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
— John F. Kennedy
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
— Jose Rizal
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
— Douglas Adams
The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.
— John Lewis
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
— Elbert Hubbard
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
— Roald Dahl
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
— Eminem
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
— Serj Tankian
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.
— Ai Weiwei
Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.
— Tommy Douglas
I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.
— Kristin Armstrong
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
— Michael Moore
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
— Merle Haggard
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
— Nick Nolte
They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
— Louis Farrakhan
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
— Taslima Nasrin
I have achieved an inner freedom.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
— Jim Morrison
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf
Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return. 
— Bob Taft
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
— Joyce Meyer
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
— Russell Simmons
I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.
— Robert Battle
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.
— Robert Kennedy
I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.
— Matt Bellamy
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
— Brian Molko
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
— Max Lerner
The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.
— Bobby Sands
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
— Dalai Lama
I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
— Gary Locke
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
— Molly Ivins
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.
— Michel Onfray
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
— Nawal El Saadawi
The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.
— Andre Leon Talley
After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
— Nick Cave
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.
— Michael O'Brien
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
— Irvine Welsh
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
— George Pataki
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
— Shel Silverstein
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
— Willie Stargell
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
— Frank Gehry
You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
— Epictetus
Freedom is not enough.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Robert McNamara
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
— Tertullian
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
— Wendell Phillips
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
— Woodrow Wilson
No man is good enough to be another's master.
— William Morris
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
— Elizabeth Dole
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
— Ferdinand Mount
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
— D. H. Lawrence
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
— Bernard Baruch
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. 
— W. Somerset Maugham
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
— Robin G. Collingwood
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.
— Jim Talent
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
— Pervez Musharraf
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
— Anthony Kennedy
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'
— Nick Nolte
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
— Bede Griffiths
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
— Julian Lincoln Simon
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
— Sidney Hook
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
— Kris Kristofferson
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
— Jalal Talabani
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
— Dennis Chavez
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
— Ernestine Rose
Freedom is such a gift.
— Ryan Gosling
In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
— Vince McMahon
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
— Eliot Engel
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
— Tony Snow
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
— Elfriede Jelinek
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.
— Frank Leslie
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
— James Otis
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
— Milos Forman
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.
— Whittaker Chambers
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
— June Jordan
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
— Neil Gaiman
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
— Lajos Kossuth
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
— Yakov Smirnoff
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
— Demosthenes
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
— Michael Novak
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
— Anthony Eden
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
— Ivan Turgenev
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
— Thomas Huxley
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
— Bertrand Russell
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.
— Alfred Adler
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 C. Brackett
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
— Luke Scott
You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
— Eric Liu
I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.
— Miuccia Prada
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
— Chuck Palahniuk
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
— Mick Jagger
There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
— Dave Matthews
We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
— George H. W. Bush
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
— Larry Flynt
I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.
— Shinzo Abe
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
— Bill Keller
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
— Donald Tusk
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
— Nancy Pearcey
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
— Os Guinness
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
— Victor Pinchuk
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
— Bruce Feiler
People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.
— Robert Fogel
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
— Andrew Young
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
— Cormac McCarthy
I have a very personal feeling about how special America is, and I know how precious freedom is. It is a sacred gift, sanctified by those who have lived it and those who have died defending it. My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated,' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish.
— Teresa Heinz
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
— Eric Idle
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.
— Rush Limbaugh
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
— Rush Limbaugh
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.
— Michelle Gagnon
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
— Abraham Lincoln
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
— Hillary Clinton
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
— Salman Rushdie
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
— Salman Rushdie
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it. 
— Samuel Johnson
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
— Patti Smith
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
— Alice Walker
Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
— Katy Perry
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
— Malcolm X
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Freedom without limits is just a word.
— Terry Pratchett
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
— Vivienne Westwood
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
— Margaret Atwood
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
— George W. Bush
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
— Martha Beck
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
— Jimmy Carter
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
— Alan Dershowitz
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
— Blake Shelton
But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
— Rick Perry
But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
— Demetri Martin
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
— Wole Soyinka
I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
— Justin Timberlake
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
— Nancy Pelosi