Quotes about freedom
567 quotes from 261 people
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours (1997)
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Red Association” (1870)I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
James Baldwin1924–1987“In Search of a Majority” address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960)America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Blood of Others [Le sang des autres] (1946)It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Conclusion
Jeremy Bentham1748–1832Principles of Legislation (1830), Ch. X: Analysis of Political Good and Evil; How they are spread in societyWhen I invented the web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Berners-Lee T., Net Neutrality: This is Serious (June 2006)
Annie Besant1847–1933The Political Thought of Annie Besant, p. 104
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Osama bin Laden1957–20112004 Video Broadcast on Al-Jazeera October 29
William Blake1757–1827Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 10, lines 20-21 The Words of Los
