Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Albert Camus

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

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.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Corazon Aquino

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Colin Powell

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Damien Hirst

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Aneurin Bevan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Anais Nin

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Andrew Wyeth

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Andrew Cohen

Freedom has no history.

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.