Freedom Quotes
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.
I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.
Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.
Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.
When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.
I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.
I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.