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“With good reason, Voznesensky is a hero to all those in the Soviet Union who want their poets to tell them the truth. But at the risk of his career, freedom, and perhaps even his life, he has never been able to do much more than drop hints.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clive James From the Land of Shadows (London: Picador, 1983) p. 222.
“Israel will never have lasting peace until she obeys God. If she will obey His statutes and keep His commandments, He will give her rain in due season, an abundance of food, freedom from fear, victory over the enemy, and peace within the land (Leviticus 26:1-13).”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.”
Miley Cyrus (born 1992) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reuters UK (November 27, 2007)
“Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.”
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Gallic powers Columbia's fury found; And so may you, whoever dares disgrace The land of freedom's heaven-defended race! Fix'd are the eyes of nations on the scales, For in their hopes Columbia's arm prevails.”
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.”
Gavrilo Princip (1894–1918) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said to the prison warden on being moved to another prison; as quoted by Borivoje Jevtic (1914)
“Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.”
Jackson C. Frank (1943–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno.”
Italo Svevo (1861–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Wood in London Review of Books, January 3, 2002. .
“...under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.”
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Olivia Ward (September 23, 2006) "Keep U.S., British forces in Iraq, says Talabani", The Toronto Star, p. A12.
“Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.”
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Howard (July 25, 2005) "Freedom at heart of new Iraq, says Talabani : Suicide bomb kills 40 as president calls for calm", The Guardian.
“We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.”
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On an attempt to build an opposition force to overthrow Saddam Hussein — reported in Ethan Bronner (October 25, 1992) "Kurds Organizing Anti-Hussein Forces - Sidebar For a Quiet Colonel, A Moving Role as Santa Claus", B…
“Of these no more. From Orders, Slaves and Kings, To thee, O Man, my heart rebounding springs. Behold th' ascending bliss that waits your call, Heav'n's own bequest, the heritage of all. Awake to wisdom, seize the proffer'd prize; From shade to light, from grief to glory rise. Freedom at last, with Reason in her train, Extends o'er earth her everlasting reign…”
Joel Barlow (1754–1812) said by 1812 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.”
Joel Barlow (1754–1812) said by 1812 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“at college there was so much more freedom, and an access to materials and to people who were more than I had thought people could be. It was there that everything opened again, but I left college because my father had gone bankrupt and could not afford to have a daughter at Vassar.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.. ..I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.”
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hartley to Kuntz, February 2, 1940, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 147
“The following assumptions, while not professing to explain the mysteries... nevertheless show that it is possible to explain the spectra of gases while ascribing 5 degrees of freedom to the molecules, and without departing from Boscovich's standpoint.”
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.”
Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror; nature rejects that order, preferring instead to proceed with the multiple disorder of the certainty of freedom.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Terra Nostra, Pt. 1, p. 253 (1975)
“There are areas where untrained people may work effectively and with limited equipment. Our pupil doesn't need a big laboratory to do this, he needs freedom; he needs encouragement.”
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we program a computer to make choices intelligently after determining its options, examining their consequences, and deciding which is most favorable or most moral or whatever, we must program it to take an attitude towards its freedom of choice essentially isomorphic to that which a human must take to his own.”
John McCarthy (computer scientist) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines" (1979) Sect. 5.5: Free Will. Reprinted in Formalizing Common Sense: Papers By John McCarthy, 1990,
“Composition allows the artist the greatest possible freedom, so that his subjectivity can express itself, to a certain degree, for as long as needed.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not want other artists to imitate my work – they do even when I tell them not to – but only [ imitate] my example for freedom and independence from all external, decadent and corrupting influences..”
Clyfford Still (1904–1980) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'A period of Exploration', McChesney, as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p 35
“I am saddened to see these scenes of violence against unarmed protesters (in Hong Kong) and hope that Taiwan can continue to serve as a beacon of democracy for those who seek freedom.”
Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.”
Jacob M. Appel (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?, The Huffington Post (2009-09-02)
“Bob: People came here for religious freedom, and we worshipped those boys.”
Robert Patrick (playwright) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young people should be given good support and freedom in their research. They are the greatest source of scientific creativity because they are not as committed to existing scientific orthodoxy, and they have the energy and enthusiasm to push new ideas.”
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t want to circle the drain of trauma. I don’t want to be a one note comic. I want to have freedom of expression, and in order to do that, I need to train my audiences to not expect stuff from me.”
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I built my career on writing jokes apologizing for myself. It’s what most people do. You have to explain who you are, and you point to a difference that you have. That’s your angle. But when it becomes the only reason you speak, it becomes an issue; all your material revolves around why you’re different. The great freedom post-“Nanette” was that I’d put all that on the table.”
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the homosexual and abortion lobbies are evil twins with the same agenda. Both want the freedom to commit illicit sex without physical or moral consequences.”
Jill Stanek (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The notion of time familiar to us may... be reconstructed in special physical situations, or within an approximation, as... the "surface of a liquid" disappears ...[at] the atomic level, or "temperature" ...makes sense only in certain physical situations and when there are enough degrees of freedom.”
Carlo Rovelli (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
John Diefenbaker (1895–1979) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 11, 1958.
“The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.”
Hugo Black (1886–1971) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Concurring opinion, Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147 (1959).
“The feeling of justice thus arises out of two errors, namely, because the punishments inflicted by authorities and educators appear as acts of retribution, and because people believe in the freedom of the will.”
Paul Rée (1849–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.”
Daniel Hannan (born 1971) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken by Daniel Hannan on Judge Andrew Napolitano's online streaming FOX News programme, Freedom Watch (29 April 2009)
“There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.”
Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.”
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I told her I had always lived alone and I probably always would.And all I wanted was my freedom.And she told me that she understood.But I let her do some of my laundry,And she slipped a few meals in between.And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in.And I was buying her a washing machine.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom isn't enough. What I desire doesn't have a name yet. (p61)”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Common elements of creativity are originality and imagination. Creativity is intertwined with the freedom to design, to invent and to dream. In engineering and science a creative idea is useful only if it meets three conditions: the constraint of the natural laws, the constraint of cost, and the constraint of technical feasibility.”
Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“… it is precisely because it is not a democracy that China will likely be so successful...What is of vital importance for economic success is economic freedom, meaning the protection of private property, the rule of law, and minimal regulation and taxation, not the right to vote.”
Peter Schiff (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.”
Jarvis Cocker (born 1963) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with The Guardian (2011)
“The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.”
John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But when she curbed the freedom of press during the emergency, I withdrew my support. Indira Gandhi had the habit of snubbing whoever opposed her. She was waiting for a chance to snub me. I never gave her the chance as I never met her after that.”
Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.”
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'Circle', 1937; as quoted in Voicing our visions, - Writings by women artists, ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279
“Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth — these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.”
Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War (2006) p. 116, also quoted in "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" at Forbes.com (19 April 2012)
“I have little interest in the "conscientious objector"; but I have the greatest regard for the individual thinker. The former opposes private conviction to public policy. His inflexibility is symptomatic of will and emotion, rather than enlightenment. The latter opposes freedom of thought to uniformity of opinion.”
Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We Russians have learned to fear anarchy above all else. We would rather have tyranny than it. Hanno, you do wrong to look on people’s republics, strong governments of every kind, as always evil. Freedom is perhaps better, but chaos is worse.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source