FREEDOM QUOTES IV

quotations about freedom

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

WILLIAM PITT

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Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

WALT DISNEY

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

JAMES MADISON

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I was a dweller amid shadows grim:
Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo!
Life in a shining circle, rounding rose,
As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night.
New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart,
Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world:
And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

GERALD MASSEY

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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

SRI AUROBINDO

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Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

MICHEL AOUN

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Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spiritual shackles that have bound men. The battles for freedom where fought by the oppressed, those who wanted new liberties, against those who had privileges to defend. While a class was fighting for its own liberation from domination, it believed itself to be fighting for human freedom as such and thus was able to appeal to an ideal, to the longing for freedom rooted in all who are oppressed. In the long and virtually continuous battle for freedom, however, classes that were fighting against oppression at one stage sided with the enemies of freedom when victory was won and new privileges were to be defended.

ERICH FROMM

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Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

ERICH FROMM

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What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

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For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

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Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

WILHELM REICH

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Freedom all solace to man gives
He lives at ease who freely lives.

JOHN BARBOUR

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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

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It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

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For those who have it, freedom is like oxygen, it's something we just have. Many will not understand just how precious either is until they are at risk of losing it.

JOHN DUTCHER

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

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Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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