7,738 Quotes About Freedom

True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

True friends don't come with conditions.

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.