Freedom Quotes
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.
We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
