Freedom Quotes

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it.

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Freedom is limited by the need to coexist.

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.

Freedom is within.Only God can give it to you.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while, the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy of his people.

Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind

Freedom is a rare gift... Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away.

To experience the spirit of peace, one must have freedom.Neither can be obtained without the other.

I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."The Panopticon

Never let the sacrifice of others be for nothing by doing nothing.

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

Relief is a great feeling.It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the neg

I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.

There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Americans are artisans in freedom.

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. "The Dry Salvages

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.

...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new "ethos.

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

I go back for seconds and thirds and fourths and fifths, when it’s good. Just not if it means some guy gets to put a leash on me.

I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.

A long leash is not freedom.

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

When you love someone, really love them, you don't put chains on them. You want them to be free.

Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.

Answer the most important questions at the start of any journey towards freedom:What am I doing now?Is it working?Is it bringing me closer to my goals, or farther away?