Freedom Perception Quotes

A free man is a noble being; a free woman is a contemptible being.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom? In America we speak of living in a free country. But are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit-it is freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

There is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.