Freedom Quotes

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

Live free or die.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Through discipline comes freedom.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.