You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech and which by imposing the most terrible punishments treats each and every attempt at criticism however morally justified and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

I am a lover of truth a worshipper of freedom a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom others when it is a bitter tonic and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.