quotations about freedom
Without freedom there can be no morality.
CARL JUNG
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Man
Step out of your cage
And onto the stage
It's time to start
Playing your part
Freedom awaits
Open the gates
Open your mind
Freedom's a state
DEPECHE MODE
"Freestate"
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 1990
Freedom ... the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
I hated slavery, always, and the desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze, to fan it into a blaze, at any moment. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past troubled me, and I longed to have a future--a future with hope in it. To be shut up entirely to the past and present, is abhorrent to the human mind; it is to the soul--whose life and happiness is unceasing progress--what the prison is to the body; a blight and mildew, a hell of horrors. The dawning of this, another year, awakened me from my temporary slumber, and roused into life my latent, but long cherished aspirations for freedom. I was now not only ashamed to be contented in slavery, but ashamed to seem to be contented.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
My Bondage and My Freedom
Men rattle their chains--to manifest their freedom.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Freedom based on respect for the individual, is an idea whose strength and beauty has remained undimmed down the ages. Other ideas and other words have been twisted and usurped. But freedom resists such treatment. It is the great gift of Western culture to mankind. It remains the driving force of the Western democracies today. It is the source of their strength, of their diversity and of their prosperity.
MARGARET THATCHER
speech accepting Donovan Award, Feb. 28, 1981
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.
THICH NHAT HANH
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
FAREED ZAKARIA
The Future of Freedom
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
EMIL CIORAN
History & Utopia
Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
For He that worketh high and wise.
Nor pauses in his plan,
Will take the sun out of the skies
Ere freedom out of man.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Ode Sung in the Town Hall
Freedom is the illusion of an imprisoned mind.
LEONID S. SUKHORUKOV
All About Everything
Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
MARTIN LUTHER KING
JR., Jul. 17, 1959
Freedom begins between the ears.
EDWARD ABBEY
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)
The free man never thinks of escape.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
WALTER LIPPMANN
The Method of Freedom
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The White House Years