Quotes of: Personal-freedom Keyword

When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.

Marty Rubin

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Abdoulaye Wade

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Barry White

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

Christo

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

Don Lemon

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Dan Savage

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

Eminem

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Hassan Nasrallah

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Isaiah Berlin

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

Kristin Armstrong

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

Peter Davison

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Patrick Henry

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

Ricardo Alarcon

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Rosa Luxemburg