1,014 Quotes Regarding Freedom


Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
Garrett Hardin

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
Sandra Day O'Connor

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard Branson

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
Michael Bloomberg

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
Emma Watson

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
Emma Watson

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David Ogilvy

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter Lippmann

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
Neil Gaiman

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

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

Our forefathers got it they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
Luke Scott

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
Arlen Specter

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn