"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
— Salman Rushdie

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.""
— Winston S. Churchill

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
— George Bernard Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession)

"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"
— Langston Hughes

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
— Michelangelo Buonarroti

"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
— C.S. Lewis

"Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance."
— Margaret Atwood (Der blinde Mörder / The Blind Assassin)

"Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently."
— Rosa Luxemburg

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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— - Doug Larson

"The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
And only You can see the good in broken things
You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
And set this prisoner free"
— Bethany Dillon

"Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now."
— Margaret Peterson Haddix (Among the Free)

""You need to be more careful, or you could hurt youself."
Really. Thank you, Mrs. Dutweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought..."
— Janette Rallison (Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws)

"But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
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— Claudia Gray (Stargazer)

"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."
— Frank Herbert

"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The taste
of rain
-- Why kneel?"
— Jack Kerouac

"Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; his two-fold security. "
— Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)

"For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John."
— C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)

"You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows."
— Li Po

""Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I."
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices."
— Clarice Lispector (The Passion According to G.H.)

" "if its free, then, usually its disgusting" "
— - Unone

"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."
— Philip Roth

"Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad."
— Friedrich August von Hayek

"He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight."
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

"Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed.

Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise."
— Friedrich Hecker

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"A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives."
— Charles Wheelan (Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science)

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— John Beck

""I've been wondering about this free will shit. Why we keep doing the same dance long after we figure out it's not that fun anymore. So we keep shuffling our feet, dancing that same dance over and over again and we keep getting the same result. It ain't the tune, we know that. It's just real hard to admit that when the music stops, it's all on us.""
— The cleaner

""That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever had to learn about anything. That she is her own, and what she gives me is her choosing and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come sit on your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or another, it and it's choice to be there are gone. "
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— Ann

"The death of Thomas had shown that, in a conflict between the Church and the Crown, the monarch could always prevail by the use of brute force. But the cult of Saint Thomas proved that such a victory would always be a hollow one. The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people (972)."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)

"The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a token tuition charge for all grade levels. Equivalent to one U. S. dollar per year per child, this fee constitutes a burden to the poorest families, who have responded by sending only boys to classes. Too many of the girls . . . have resorted to prostitution in order to eat."
— Michael Dorris (Rooms in the House of Stone)

"The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.""
— Jimmy Buffett (A Pirate Looks at Fifty)

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
— Denis Diderot

"I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves."
— Peggy Noonan (Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now)

"ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE"
— Patricia J Smith