Freedom Quotes

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela


Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin


A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan


Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche


War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell


Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela


If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X


Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson Mandela


You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X


I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison


Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer


It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten


Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey


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


I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison


I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X


I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison


If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost


I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem


The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham


The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost


A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus


What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell


I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe


Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt