Freedom Quotes

"I believe that AI will free humanity from repetitive labor."

"Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be."

"This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want."

"We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free."

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."

"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."

"To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is."

"My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom."

"You're not free  until you've been made captive by  supreme belief."

"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow."

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."

"I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again."

"I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America."

"I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever."

"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."

"Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade."

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

"After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms."

"My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources."

"I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company."

"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay."

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever."

"If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound."

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

"Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."

"Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms."

"I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control."

"A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes."

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

"Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out."

"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."

"Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable."

"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."

"If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now."

"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty."

"Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win."

"When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered."

"When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me."

"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."

"It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor."

"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."

"There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty."

"The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

"It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop."

"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy."

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

"Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character."

"That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war."

"You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow."