Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

D. H. Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.

David Mamet

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

David Foster

The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.

Coretta Scott King

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Daniel Webster

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Daniel Webster

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

David Cameron

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

David Ben-Gurion

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Dave Sim

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use..

Angela Davis

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Anna Howard Shaw

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Ambrose Bierce

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

Ambrose Bierce

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Anthony Kennedy

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Anthony Kennedy

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Anthony Horowitz

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

Alice Walker

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Cole Porter

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

Clement Attlee

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

Cynthia Ozick

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

E. W. Howe

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.