FREEDOM QUOTES VIII

quotations about freedom

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Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Man is condemned to be free.

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

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Every man
On Freedom's ramparts must a warder be,
To warn of danger when the foe appears;
To meet the onset when the foe assaults.
Else--vain our hopes, and else the temple grand,
Of all our rights, and birth-right liberties,
Ere long will fall, and crumble in the dust,
A ruin, more abject and dire than Rome
Or Carthage was.

ANDREW DOWNING

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Step out of your cage
And onto the stage
It's time to start
Playing your part
Freedom awaits
Open the gates
Open your mind
Freedom's a state

DEPECHE MODE

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Freedom begins between the ears.

EDWARD ABBEY

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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

GARRISON KEILLOR

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The free man never thinks of escape.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

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We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

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Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

EMMA LAZARUS

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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

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The assumption that there must be a core concept of freedom common to all contested conceptions misrepresents the nature of the disputes. Typically, protagonists accuse each other of espousing conceptions which are not conceptions of freedom at all, but which are rather conceptions of power, opportunity, will, self-realization, and so forth. To assume that there is a core concept of freedom common to all conceptions is to assume agreement on at least some essential characteristics of freedom. But, for example, those who regard freedom as essentially "negative" will reject MacCallum's schema as too broad; those who believe that freedom is essentially self-realization will reject it as too narrow.

CHRISTINE SWANTON

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Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

ERICH FROMM

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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

SAUL ALINSKY

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

JOHN MILTON

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The universal law of justice is: act externally in such a way that the free use of your will is compatible with the freedom of everyone according to a universal law.

IMMANUEL KANT

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The best road to progress is freedom's road.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

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To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

OSHO

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

RONALD REAGAN

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other fastened about his own neck.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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