Quotes About Freedom

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else's, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

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

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!

Insofar as the idea of the limitlessness of human freedom is central to the arts of our time, this is also where the Anthropocene will most intransigently resist them.