"The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?Is my veil in place?Can my make-up be seen?Are they going to whip me?No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?Where is my freedom of speech?My life, is it liveable?What's going on in the political prisons?"

— Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis 😊

"You can't take the sky from me."

— Joss Whedon 😊

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life 😊

"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind."

— John Milton, Comus 😊

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower 😊

"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?"

— Mary Astell 😊

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are"

— John F. Kennedy 😊

"Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs meto find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools."

— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game 😊

"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally."

— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom 😊

"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita 😊

"Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining."

— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta 😊

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No Im not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldnt have to draft me, Id join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So Ill go to jail, so what? Weve been in jail for 400 years."

— Muhammad Ali 😊

"Secrecy begets tyranny."

— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land 😊

"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it."

— John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife 😊

"Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not."

— Noam Chomsky 😊

"A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities"

— Jeremy Aldana 😊

"Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons."

— Ron Paul 😊

"Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose"."

— Kris Kristofferson 😊

"There are only two things to worry about in life: either youre free or youre not. If youre free, theres nothing to worry about. If youre not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are."

— Karen Marie Moning, Iced 😊

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."

— Vladimir Lenin 😊