Freedom Quotes
The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.
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"Freedom is the greatest gift."Wright Brothers
"I never sought permission to do what I believed needed to be done. You shouldn't either."Vera Rubin
"I never accepted that some doors were closed to women. I simply turned the handle."Vera Rubin
"The freedom to pursue truth is the greatest freedom of all."Vera Rubin
"How would you like to live in a world where, the moment you're born, a physician examines you and pronounces you fit or unfit?"Alan Turing
"Living in fear is no way to live at all."Wright Brothers
"The choice before us is what kind of world we want to inhabit. That choice begins with understanding what we are choosing to destroy."Rachel Carson
"In defending the right of nature to exist, we defend our own right to a meaningful life."Rachel Carson
"Every individual has a right to their own opinion and belief."George Washington Carver
"No individual has any right in this Christian community to force upon another his conception of how he shall live his life."George Washington Carver
"You cannot invent the future if you are trapped by the past."Grace Hopper
"Freedom to question is the foundation of all scientific progress."Gregor Mendel
"Freedom to observe freely is freedom in its truest form."Gregor Mendel
"Nobody owns the sky."Wright Brothers
"We may say that a digital computer has a considerable range of choice, within the range of its programming."Alan Turing
"A machine is not tied down by its programming. It can be reprogrammed to do new tasks."Alan Turing
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of the world is an affront."Alan Turing
"I've been a slave and I've been free. Freedom is better."Hedy Lamarr
"Freedom is the most important thing in life."Hedy Lamarr
"I never wanted to be put in a box."Hedy Lamarr
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and choice as comports with the freedom of every other citizen, we maintain the individuality of man."Alexander Graham Bell
"If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either in the salad bowl or in the air he breathes, it is surely only because our forefathers could conceive of no such problem."Rachel Carson
"I have never been limited by anyone's concept of who I should be."Barbara McClintock
"I refused to be limited by the expectations of my time."Barbara McClintock
"I found freedom in the pursuit of scientific truth."Barbara McClintock
"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest form of freedom."Barbara McClintock
"The machine will free man from the bonds of the earth."Wright Brothers
"I refused to be boxed in by society's expectations."Hedy Lamarr
"I never let society define what I could become."Hedy Lamarr
"My mind was my escape from the limitations around me."Hedy Lamarr