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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
Rowan Atkinson on freedom

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
Lauryn Hill on freedom

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
Jon Meacham on freedom

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
Tony Blair on freedom

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
Esther Dyson on freedom

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann on freedom

My wife needs her freedom just like me.
Clive Owen on freedom

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Martha Beck on freedom

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge on freedom

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman on freedom

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
Diane Kruger on freedom

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

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
Rand Paul on freedom

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
James Otis on freedom

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.
Julie Burchill on freedom

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith on freedom

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
Jeremy Renner on freedom

The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Christo on freedom

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton on freedom

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
David O. McKay on freedom