7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.

If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.

Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Whatever passes through your mind, don’t focus on it and don’t try to suppress it. Just observe it as it comes and goes.

Absolute freedom requires absolute responsibility.

I cannot keep you if it is killing me to keep you.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.