A hungry man is not a free man.
—Adlai Stevenson
Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
—Walt Whitman
I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
—George Bernard Shaw
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck
Freedom lies beyond conformity or rebellion.
—Sam Keen
A forest bird never wants a cage.
—Henrik Ibsen
Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American Dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.
—Alan Alda as Hawkeye on M*A*S*H
Resolve and thou art free.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
—Michelangelo
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
—A. J. Liebling
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
—Christo
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
—Robert Green Ingersoll
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
—Hans Christian Andersen