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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action." »Albert Einstein
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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!" »Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us" »Andrew Schneider
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"freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." »Bergen
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"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions." »Anais Nin
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." »Myron Tribus
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"in regards to academic pursuits..."the short-term stress is worth a lifetime of success!"" »Jemille Smith
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"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." »Myron Tribus
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"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." »Albert Camus
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"Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse." »Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
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"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." »Socrates
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." »Kierkegaard
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"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." »Mark Twain
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." »Mark Twain
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." »Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." »Mark Twain
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"freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." »Benjamin Cardozo
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"freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." »J. Krishnamurti
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind." »George Will
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"Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon
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"freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this “ freedom” give “big brother”, the opportunity to dictate our way of life???" »Larry Levesque
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." »Erich Fromm
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"I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it." »Christian Longe
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"Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me" »Alisa Wells
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"The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way." »George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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