Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

Terence

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Nicolas Chamfort

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Mignon McLaughlin

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Mignon McLaughlin

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

John Ruskin

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

John Quincy Adams

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

Matt Taibbi

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Meg Greenfield

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Maximilien Robespierre

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Max Stirner

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Patricia Clarkson

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

Patricia Briggs

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

Pablo Casals

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

Plato

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

Plato

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Philip Wylie

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Larkin

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

Philip Larkin

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

Lech Walesa

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

Petro Poroshenko

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Peggy Noonan

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Marianne Moore

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Max Frisch

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Maya Angelou

Don't let the man bring you down.

Maya Angelou

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Marianne Williamson

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Mason Cooley

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.