Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
~By Tony Snow ~
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
~By Walter Salles ~
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
~By Richard Stallman ~
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
~By John Ralston Saul ~
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
~By Pervez Musharraf ~
I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.
~By George Woodcock ~
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
~By Mike Pence ~
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
~By Will Durant ~
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
~By Wayne Shorter ~
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
~By Robert Casey ~
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
~By Bob Riley ~
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
~By Joe Baca ~
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
~By Pat Robertson ~
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
~By Robin Morgan ~
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
~By John Salazar ~
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
~By Tim Robbins ~
They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
~By Nelly Sachs ~
These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~By Milton Friedman ~
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~By Bob Dylan ~
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
~By Don Nickles ~
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~By Thomas Campbell ~
Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~By Bob Dylan ~
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
~By Isabel Allende ~
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
~By Vernon Howard ~
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.
~By Mel Martinez ~
There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
~By Charlie Dent ~
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
~By Tom Scholz ~
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along."
~By John Shelby Spong ~
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
~By Diane Kruger ~
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
~By Helene Deutsch ~
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
~By Howard Coble ~
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
~By Alexander Meiklejohn ~
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
~By Robin Hayes ~
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~By George Pataki ~
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
~By Pam Grier ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
~By Dorothy Canfield Fisher ~
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
~By Georg Cantor ~
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
~By James Larkin ~
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
~By John Dyer ~
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
~By Robert Frost ~
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
~By Michael Novak ~
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
~By Boris Becker ~
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
~By Morning Star ~
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.
~By Judd Gregg ~
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
~By Kate Millett ~
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
~By Mary Richards ~
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
~By Greg Walden ~
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
~By Bill Moyers ~
|