Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Salman Rushdie

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Salman Rushdie

Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is, 'Freedom is Indivisible,' you can't slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hedbo. ... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Joss Whedon

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me

Joss Whedon

You can't take the sky from me.

Kofi Annan

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Ramana Maharshi

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Laurie Anderson

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

L. Ron Hubbard

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

Tertullian

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Shelby Steele

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Lee Kuan Yew

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lady Bird Johnson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Neil McDonald

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.

Marcus Aurelius

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marc Chagall

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Thomas a Kempis

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Samuel Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.