The Quotes canon
Sourced and curated.
Every quote has been curated by hand and carefully authenticated.
Browse all 10,075 quotes or apply filters in different categories to narrow your search.
Browse all 10,075 quotes or apply filters in different categories to narrow your search.
Nature of freedom17 quotes
The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson · 1820Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin · 1961If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell · 1944A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai Stevenson · 1952Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. — George Orwell · 1949I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. — Nelson Mandela · 1994All 17 quotes →Freedom16 quotes
The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson · 1820Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin · 1961If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell · 1944A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai Stevenson · 1952Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. — George Orwell · 1949I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. — Nelson Mandela · 1994All 16 quotes →Political theory2 quotes
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai Stevenson · 1952Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself...economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. — Milton Friedman · 1962Black freedom struggle1 quote
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. — Amiri Baraka · 1962Fighting for freedom1 quote
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. — Kwame Nkrumah · 1953Freedom as disruptive force1 quote
The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson · 1820Freedom from fear1 quote
Real freedom is freedom from fear, and unless you can live from fear, you cannot live a dignified human life. — Aung San Suu KyiLiberation1 quote
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin · 1961