7,738 Quotes About Freedom
- Author Scott Westerfeld
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I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
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- Author Oliver Bowden
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Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.
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- Author Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Music, my rampart and my only one.
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- Author Nenia Campbell
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You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.
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- Author Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
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- Author Toni Morrison
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To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
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- Author Thomas L. Friedman
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America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.
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- Author Niall Ferguson
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So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
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- Author Thomas Sowell
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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