Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

E. W. Howe

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

E. W. Howe

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Alan J. Pakula

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Harvey Milk

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Francine Rivers

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

Conor Oberst

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Georg Cantor

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Greg Fitzsimmons

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

Thomas Moore

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Ferdinand Marcos

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

Ian Frazier

I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

Frances O'Grady

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

Carine Roitfeld

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

Malcolm X

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Bartlett Sher

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Abu Abbas

It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

John Stuart Mill

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

John Dryden

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

You have had seven and one half years of freedom that you never should have had.

Judith Jamison

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

Ram Dass

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Ram Dass

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Ram Dass

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

We would love to see these sites nominated to the Network to Freedom. I'm sure there are valid sites in Connecticut.

Kurt Vonnegut

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?