Quotes About Freedom

Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants

good. A society that gets marriage wrong will not remain free for long: the family is the training ground for the virtues that make free societies possible. Consider especially the necessity of trust in economic relationships.

From the beginning God created us with that radical freedom: to choose him, or to choose ourselves instead.

All of us are called to share God's life, and we must face our ordeal and choose God freely.

We are transformed from slaves to sons and daughters, from followers of God's law to members of his faithful family, from people who fear to children who love.

There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

It's all up to you, kid. The dinosaurs are dying out. Become a Bird...

Laughter, it turns out, is the soul of liberty.

were going to be released, for fear of compromising Special

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Writers can live everywhere. It's our superpower.

I often feel that way, I would like to open one of my veins, to bring me eternal freedom.

Oh dear, oh dear, that our frames should lack Wings with which to match our soaring spirit,

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!

The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most ofthemlabour the greater part oftheir time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedomwhich remains to themso troubles themthat they use every exertion to get rid ofit.

Denn alle Kraft dringt vorwärts in die Weite, Zu leben und zu wirken hier und dort; Dagegen engt und hemmt von jeder Seite Der Strom der Welt und reisst uns mit sich fort: In diesem innern Sturm und äussern Streite Vernimmt der Geist ein schwer verstanden Wort: Von der Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, Befreit der Mensch sich, der sich überwindet.

To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every cay must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. What a thing our human destiny is!

Now and then the fable of the horse recurs to me. Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

Wenn du fragst, wie die Leute hier sind, muß ich dir sagen: wie überall! Es ist ein einförmiges Ding um das Menschengeschlecht. Die meisten verarbeiten den größten Teil der Zeit, um zu leben, und das bißchen, das ihnen von Freiheit übrig bleibt, ängstigt sie so, daß sie alle Mittel aufsuchen, um es los zu werden. O Bestimmung des Menschen!