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“I am a Filipino born of freedom and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance - for myself and my children's children - forever”
Carlos P. Romulo (1899–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.”
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends, several generations devoted themselves completely during our freedom struggle. There was never a moment during the period of slavery that there was not a movement for freedom.”
Narendra Modi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But what is freedom? For me, it is respect for others and respect for the law. Freedom is not anarchy.”
Mohammed VI of Morocco (born 1963) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Le Figaro–September 2001
“My young friends, you are soldiers in the battle of freedom-freedom from want, fear, ignorance, frustration and helplessness. By a dint of hard work for the country, rendered in a spirit of selfless service, may you march ahead with hope and courage.”
Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My only painful concern at times is that of the welfare of my family but I try even in this regard, in a spirit of trust and surrender to God's will as I see it, to say: "God will provide." It is inevitable that in working for Freedom some individuals and some families must take the lead and suffer: The Road to Freedom is via the CROSS.”
Albert Lutuli (1898–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Björn Wahlroos declared as freedom the most rich persons tax declines and cuts in everything beneficial for the poor. Nokia applies the freedom of Wahlroos. Year 2010 Nokia paied taxes in Finland €1.5 million while three years earlier it paid almost a thousand fold €1.3 billion.”
Satu Hassi (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Losing the human form brings the freedom to remember your self. Losing the human form is like a spiral. It gives you the freedom to remember and this in turn makes you even freer.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A warrior is someone who seeks freedom. Sadness is not freedom. We must snap out of it. Having a sense of detachment entails having a moment's pause to reassess situations.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moksha' is not `Freedom from Action' but,`Freedom in Action'.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mr. President, if we, as elected officials, ignore, disregard, and contravene the laws which bind us, how can we expect our fellow citizens to respect and follow the laws which bind all of us as a society? Finally, as an American, I am appalled by your statement; “This is not about freedom or personal choice.” On the contrary, in America, it is always about freedom.”
Glenn Jacobs (born 1967) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 17 September 2021 letter to Joe Biden
“You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul. Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you must choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it.”
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Healthiest You Ever : 365 Ways to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Boost Your BMI, Lower Your Blood Pressure, Increase Your Stamina, Improve Your Cholesterol Levels, and Energize from Head to Toe! (2011), p. 291
“Freedom is the biggest myth ever created. It's a destructive, unachievable goal that has caused a great deal of pain. Very few people can handle freedom. A society is healthy and productive when it's under control.”
John Twelve Hawks (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights.”
Noam Cohen wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom lies in expressing your own determinism, not somebody else’s. It is not the determinism that makes a difference, but the ownership. If freedom is what we prefer, then it is preferable to be determined by forces that originate in ourselves and not in others.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In practice further, it (the Conscription Act) separates black from white-those supposedly struggling for a common freedom. Such a separation also is based on the moral error that racism can overcome racism, that evil can produce good, that men virtually in slavery can struggle for a freedom they are denied.”
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the war was a terrible war, but it was a war for human freedom, and if the South had succeeded and if slavery had been extended, the United States, or part of it, might very well have been on the side of Hitler in the Second World War. We would not have been the bastion of freedom we have been in the twentieth century.”
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“English government has a special claim to be studied. It developed in comparative freedom from outside interference, producing a curious blend of decentralized and popular freedom with strong, efficient, and centralized administration.”
Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tudor Revolution in Government (1953)
“The work of art... in seemingly by-passing all difficulties, attains full freedom, thus in fact nourishing the prevailing ideology. It functions as a security valve for the system, an image of freedom in the midst of general alienation and finally as a bourgeois concept supposedly beyond all criticism, natural, above and beyond all ideology.”
Daniel Buren (born 1938) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daniel Buren, "Critical Limits," (1970), in: Buren, Five Texts, trans. Laurent Sauerwein (New York: John Weber Gallery, 1973), p. 45
“It is easier to talk about such things like democracy, human rights and freedom. Democracy is just a phrase to be talked about in idle gossip. Democracy means food for the people's stomach, shelter, education, medical facilities and basic amenities and the freedom to move freely. Discipline is more essential in our society than democracy, though they have a need of both.”
Norodom Ranariddh (1944–2021) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in July 1994, from , pp. 195-6.
“I am confident that we will continue to move toward greater political and legal freedoms, but with many ups and downs along the way. However, we may find that total freedom or something close to it is a difficult challenge, too. Winning freedom of thought and action is one thing, deciding what to do with it will be quite another.”
Guy P. Harrison (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the time of the Gettysburg Address, in November 1863, the North was fighting for a 'new birth of freedom' to transform the Constitution written by the founding fathers, under which the United States had become the world's largest slaveholding country, into a charter of emancipation for a republic where, as the northern version of 'The Battle Cry of Freedom' put it, 'Not a man shall be a slave'.”
James M. McPherson (born 1936) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James M. McPherson. The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom (2003)
“American ideas about freedom certainly resonate abroad. Eastern Europeans embraced them after the collapse of Communist rule. Indeed, the years since 1989 have witnessed an unprecedented internationalization of current American concepts of freedom.”
Eric Foner (born 1943) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not All Freedom Is Made in America" (13 April 2003), The New York Times
“Initiative means freedom to act, but it does not mean freedom to act in an offhand or casual manner.”
Ernest King (1878–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Robert A. Fitton (editor) in Leadership: Quotations From the Military Tradition (1990), p. 126
“If the grandchildren of the freedom fighters do not get job, then will the grandchildren of Razakar get it? My question is to the countrymen. Razakar's grandchildren will get jobs, will freedom fighters grandshildren not get job? what is their fault?”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no definition of cults in law. on the other hand, these organizations know perfectly evade justice by hiding their true nature, since you are aware that freedom of conscience in France is a fundamental freedom enshrined in all our principles and our texts.”
Manuel Valls (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But after his victory over Scotland’s militia, I asked [Cromwell] whether England now blossomed with freedom. He hesitated. We both knew that he had arrested his opponents and censored his critics. I asked the question again. Finally, he said, ‘Aye, there be freedom in England. I may do whatever I wish.’”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.”
Jamie Bartlett (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Republicans who are pleased by my calling out Dems on religious freedom should remember that religious freedom must be honored for everyone--including Muslims. Though some Repubs have been good on this, others (inc the President) have not been. There must be one standard for all.”
Robert P. George (born 1955) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (17 January 2018)
“The less freedom people have the more violence, the more freedom the less violence. I put this here as the Power Principle: power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Increasing freedom in the world decreases the death toll of its wars. Surely, whatever reduces and then finally ends the scourge of war in our history, without causing a greater evil, must be the greatest moral good. And this is freedom.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom! That belabored word! It is a big, empty word, and yet, when some experience reminds us what freedom is, how clear and particular its meaning becomes, how unspeakably sweet, and full!”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe every creature is born with the inalienable right of freedom. Freedom to live in its natural environment, with its own kind, making its own decisions. I believe the law should prohibit the enslavement of all non human species for any purpose whatever.”
Jim Morris (bodybuilder) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Black Male Vegan: 77-Year-Old Bodybuilder Jim Morris Proves Vegans Can Be Muscular & Healthy", interview with Frugivore magazine (October 2, 2012).
“Thoughts and dreams don’t die. Belief in freedom and justice does not perish with imprisonment, torture or even death and tyranny do not prevail over freedom, even when they rely on the power of the state. Sitting here in the prison, I am deeply humbled by the honor you have bestowed on me and I will continue my efforts until we achieve peace, tolerance for a plurality of views, and human rights.”
Narges Mohammadi (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom of expression cannot be the freedom to tell lies, the prophet did not found a terrorist religion, but a religion of peace.”
Dalil Boubakeur (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What universities are saying by these codes, special protections, and double standards — to women, to blacks, to Hispanics, to gay and lesbian students — is, "You are too weak to live with freedom. You are too weak to live with the First Amendment." If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child.”
Alan Charles Kors (born 1943) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "College" (2005), Bullshit!, HBO
“You can't say to people, you're too weak to live with freedom, only that group is strong enough to live with freedom.”
Alan Charles Kors (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lenin and Hitler are haters of freedom and—in so far as they are capable of love at all—they are lovers of intolerance. They wanted freedom to establish unfreedom.”
Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today's NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry. While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the 'freedom' of individual gun owners, it's actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory.”
Josh Sugarmann first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: April 13, 2011 ()
“Marxism has taught us to separate Church and State, this is the first thing we will do. Secondly, I want to repeat, we respect the freedom of religious belief of the people--applying fully the principle of freedom to believe, as well as not to believe. to be an atheist. That is how we will handle it.”
Abimael Guzmán (1934–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is not genuine if some people are too poor or too weak to enjoy it, and equality is not genuine if some people are ruled by others. The crucial contribution to political theory made by anarchists is this realization that freedom and equality are in the end the same thing.”
Nicolas Walter (1934–2000) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Anarchism (1969), p. 163
“I love the freedom of creation, which (I hope) is visible in my works, and only one who has enough knowledge can afford freedom. You can not deal with high mathematics if you have not mastered the basics, adding up and subtracting, so it's about something similar with painting.”
Alfred Freddy Krupa (born 1971) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Culture depends on the situation in the country, Alfred Freddy Krupa, Karlovački list (Karlovac Daily Newspaper), 2000
“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Freedom of expression, for me, consists in moving within a measured range that I assign to each of my undertakings. How instructive it is to remember Leonardo da Vinci's counsel that "strength is born of constraint and dies from freedom.”
I. M. Pei (1917–2019) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Acceptance speech for the The Pritzker Architecture Prize (16 May 1983), quoted in The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei (1983)
“All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India, one fifth of human race.”
Nathuram Godse (1910–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let me shatter some illusions today. We are entertainers. We are not heroes. The heroes are our freedom fighters. We do not sacrifice anything for the cause of the nation. The freedom fighters did. Don't misunderstand me, cricket is not everything. What we try to do is to bring happiness to our nation.”
Mashrafe Mortaza (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not possible to get freedom for goods without freedom for services, in particular for the movement of people”
Michel Barnier (born 1951) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Barnier says agreement possible by early November BBC News (10 September 2018)
“As a beacon of religious freedom and tolerance, Taiwan is committed to further strengthening ties with the Holy See via substantive cooperative initiatives spanning democracy, religious freedom and human rights.”
Chen Chien-jen (born 1951) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chen Chien-jen (2019) cited in "Report lauds Taiwan for Muslim rights" on Taipei Times, 23 June 2019.
“In the case of the exploitation of slave labor, by contrast, things are exceedingly clear. Slaves, who exist as a sort of animal owned by another human being, have no freedom. Like a dog, a slave is unable to exercise any degree of physical or mental freedom.”
Itsurō Sakisaka (1897–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“how can the Department of Defense explain or justify the intervention into the grape boycott, while we are supposedly fighting for freedom in Vietnam, and yet we are trying to destroy the farmworkers’ struggle for economic freedom m our own country.”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source