Freedom Quotes - Page 13

• He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

  Henri Matisse

  Love, Running, Passion

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Liberty, May

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.41

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• I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

  Damien Hirst

  Boundaries, Found, Wanted

  "You can puff all you like Damien, but the wind's gone out of Britart" by Nicola Kuhn, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 1999.

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• There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Success, Peace, Determination

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Reading, 4th Of July

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Please

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, V. 83,

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• Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Philosophy, Kids

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

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• Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  4th Of July, Flower, Heart

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, People, Politics

  'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)

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• I'm single because I was born that way.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Women

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Exercise, Men, Choices

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• Where there is much freedom there is much error.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Errors

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Justice, Chaos, Vanishing Point

  Alan Dean Foster (2014). “To the Vanishing Point”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, People, Liberty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Mean, Army, Gun

  House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Heart, Order, Shadow

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Heaven, Anything Goes, Olden Days

  'Anything Goes' (1934 song)

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• Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Joy, Inner Peace

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.29, New World Library

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• A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

  Mark Twain

  Liberty, Irreverence, Humans

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1479, Delphi Classics

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  If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Differences, Expression

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

  Rollo May

  Moving, Journey, Play

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Fall, Hands, Tyrants

  "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

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