Quotes about free
freedom thinking people
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom. Oswald Spengler
freedom sleep law
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made. Otto von Bismarck
freedom journey liberty
It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance. Ossie Davis
freedom self sake
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine. June Jordan
freedom power african-american
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ... June Jordan
freedom real able
What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did. Joyce Meyer
freedom lying intelligent
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? Henrik Ibsen
freedom bird want
A forest bird never wants a cage. Henrik Ibsen
freedom truth society
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen
freedom bored everyday
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free... Henri Matisse
freedom artist constraints
An artist must not feel under any constraint. Henri Matisse
freedom-of-speech way good-things
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus
freedom liberty hebrew
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Heinrich Heine
freedom religion our-time
Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time. Heinrich Heine
freedom obedience true-freedom
True obedience is true freedom. Henry Ward Beecher
freedom bird cages
A bird in a cage is not half a bird. Henry Ward Beecher
freedom done said
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. Henry James
freedom eye people
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. Henry James
freedom land titles
If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got? Helen Thomas
freedom government history
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom aversion apostles
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom law giving
Only law can give us freedom. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom bears levels
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom mean doe
Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom persistence lasts
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom race democracy
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom giving mastery
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom attachment people
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected. Francois Hollande
free-time meaningless
I had so much free time that free time was meaningless. Maggie Stiefvater
freedom justice liberty
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage. Han Suyin
freedom matter artistic
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty. Gustave Courbet
freedom school church
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty. Gustave Courbet
freedom democracies-have order
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton