I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom.
Calvin Klein

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir

The precondition to freedom is security.
Rand Beers

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
Larry David

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
Karl Rahner

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley