Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archibald MacLeish

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Archibald MacLeish

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Baruch Spinoza

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Tony Scott

So I sort of thought, 'OK, well, seeing as we're not completely telling her story, it gives me a sort of freedom to actually do what I want.' 

Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Edward Abbey

Freedom begins between the ears.

Aristotle

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Walter Benjamin

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Lindsay Pulsipher

'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

Victoria Smurfit

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.