Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Hollande

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henrik Ibsen

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Henri Matisse

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

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Herodotus

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Heinrich Heine

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Heinrich Heine

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Henry Ward Beecher

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry James

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Henry James

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.

Helen Thomas

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

Joyce Carol Oates

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Katherine Anne Porter

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Katharine Graham

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Joseph Cook

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Joseph de Maistre

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Langston Hughes

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Langston Hughes

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Han Suyin

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.

Gustave Courbet

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Gustave Courbet

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

John Dryden

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

John Dryden

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

John Dryden

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

John Locke

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

John Locke

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.