3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
3 December 2020 Ibrahim Babangida Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
3 December 2020 Bill Keller I don’t think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws – against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
3 December 2020 Charles Horton Cooley Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
3 December 2020 Shimon Peres My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
3 December 2020 Shimon Peres Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
3 December 2020 Indra Devi Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
3 December 2020 Brad Thor I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it’s equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
3 December 2020 Jon Landau To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
3 December 2020 Amy Tan I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
3 December 2020 Rick Scott I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
3 December 2020 Vernon Howard We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
3 December 2020 James Truslow Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
3 December 2020 John Stossel Patrick Henry did not say, ‘Give me absolutely safety or give me death.’ America is supposed to be about freedom.
