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“Freedom makes life not easy/ But noble and worthwhile!”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is basically a spiritual longing/ That can only be filled by a spiritual power.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The spiritual freedom, once relished and tasted/ Is ready to give up everything.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is heaviest when you finally have nothing left to lose.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pandikattu, K. (2004). FREEDOM: Foster It!. Media House, Delhi.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If crowdfunding has this idea of rebellion to it, and of circumventing the system, then these crowdfunding sites aren't really freedom. We're just creating another gatekeeper.”
Jessica Mae Stover first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: Gordon Cox. "Crowdfunding draws crowds," at variety.com, 2011
“It was one of the greatest thrills of my life to stand there, waist high in crusty snow, on a peak never before trod by human kind, surrounded by the great ghostly shadows of other individual peaks in this range. I practised my yodel which echoed and re-echoed with no human to hear. It was glorious, a sense of peace and freedom such as I never known before.”
Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace is meaningless without freedom.”
N. K. Jemisin (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties, and the consequences can be ghastly.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.”
Preston Manning (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.”
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As translated at Gallery of Russian Thinkers … selected by Dmitry Olshansky (2005)
“Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?”
Simon Blackburn (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.”
Joel Bakan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] legal curbs on corporate freedoms are needed to protect citizen's freedom.”
Joel Bakan (born 1959) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy, Vintage Books, 2020, page 61 (ISBN 9781984899729).
“I will impose women's freedom and rights by the force of the law, and I will not wait for the democracy of a people duped by male culture in the name of religion.”
Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have carried this abscess too far, Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous.”
Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.”
David McNally (professor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The success of any freedom of information regime depends on two main factors: A tightly drawn law with a clear statement of intent that makes clear statement of intent that makes clear a presumption of openness, and a bold regulator who is tough and not afraid to exert his authority and challenge government interests.”
Heather Brooke (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should not expect politicians to promote freedom of information. Why should they? They have a vested interest in controlling the public's access to information and thereby maintaining their grip on power.”
Heather Brooke (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world may be more complex and uncertain than we would like, but giving away our freedom for the false promises of protection is not a sustainable solution. We are defined not just by what we preach, but by what we practice. We cannot claim to be an enlightened democratic society if we live in breach of these values, without the rule of law, without reason, or the rigorous commitment to truth.”
Heather Brooke (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...none but those who feel it, can tell the trials and sufferings of those who, for the cause of Freedom-the cause of Truth-have to sacrifice home, wealth, friends, all that makes life desirable, and become strangers and wanderers in foreign lands.”
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human freedom and true democracy are identical.”
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?”
Herbert Schiller (1919–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The unity of instinct and the universal belief in freedom for the individual which id the backbone of democracy is a very real thing in Britain today. We are not only fighting for it, it is our greatest weapon.”
Margery Allingham (1904–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.”
Randal Marlin (1938–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.”
Randal Marlin (1938–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Truly is the dawn of freedom appearing - truly the emancipation of the tenant farmers of Ireland. The south is awakening, slowly but surely". Daly in the Connaught Telegraph on 6 December 1879, after being released from Sligo jail following his comments at Gurteen.”
James Daly (Irish Land League) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.”
John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 30, 1962, page 133.
“George W. Bush did a incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.”
Rick Perry (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roger: It’s a little more freedom, sort of, but it’s more work, too, to keep up with all the little things. It’s kinda worth it, I guess; nobody really buys CDs so it really doesn’t matter.”
Roger Manganelli (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if we were offered everything that exists, it is nothing compared to the freedom and power of being loved”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom.”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.”
Otto Weininger (1880–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom from the world is, in principle, not asceticism, but rather a distance from the world for which all participation in things worldly takes place in the attitude of “as if not.” (1 Cor. 7:29-31)”
Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws—this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. … Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot credit our enjoyment of a flower or of the atmosphere of a room to an autonomous esthetic instinct. Man’s esthetic responsiveness relates in its prehistory to various forms of idolatry; his belief in the goodness or sacredness of a thing precedes his enjoyment of its beauty. The applies no less to such concepts as freedom and humanity.”
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Long after Plato’s time the concept of the Ideas still represented the sphere of aloofness, independence, and in a certain sense even freedom, an objectivity that did not submit to ‘our’ interests.”
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is whole only when it isn’t subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.”
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whereas Marx’s vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner’s man makes his own freedom.”
John Carroll (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whitman’s masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul.”
Rob Riemen (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained.”
David Edwards (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I enjoy a freedom of tone and experimentation unparalleled, almost unthinkable in more traditional films — producers are becoming more conservative, dramatically.”
François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As an introduction to America, my ten months in Baltimore were superb. I find it difficult to find words to convey the feeling of decompression, of freedom, of being caught in a sweep of unimagined and unimaginable grandeur. It was a life on a different scale with more of everything - more air to breathe, more things to see, more people to know.”
Mark Kac (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source