Freedom - Quotes and Proverbs

Some proverbs and quotes about freedom.

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"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen

A patent on seeds is a patent on freedom. If you have to pay for patented seeds, it's like being forced to buy your own freedom.

Ka Memong Patayan

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Margaret Atwood

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

(unknown author)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the United Nations

Among the perquisites of freedom is the freedom of people to screw up their own lives.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Friedrich von Schiller

As free as a bird.

Completely free to do what you want and without any worries.

As free as a caged bird.

(unknown author)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of stupidity.

(unknown author)

Freedumb. The belief that your personal freedom outweighs others' personal safety.

(unknown author)

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Richard Dawkins

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed?

Emily Brontë
Source: Wuthering Heights

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Emily Brontë

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

It's better to eat a mushroom in freedom than to eat meat in slavery.

Life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.

Steven Pinker

Perhaps ironically, free will is necessary to enable people to follow rules.

Roy Baumeister

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.

Stephen King

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy

The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted.

Mance Rayder
Source: Game of Thrones

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Garth Brooks

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Rowan Atkinson

We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god.

Stephen Hawking

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What is freedom without survival?

Frans de Waal
Source: Mama's Last Hug

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Abbie Hoffman

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