Quotes About Freedom

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

In its next issue, the Albany Journal featured a song that began: Behold Columbia's empire rise, On freedom's solid base to stand; Supported by propitious skies, And seal'd by her deliverer's hand.118 In case any reader missed its meaning, newspapers reprinting this song added a footnote stating that the last line referred to Washington's signature on the Constitution.

No law can shackle human thought

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

whether in London's ornate arcades or Rio's fractious favelas, whether in the high-rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workspaces of Dharavi, our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom are all ultimately gifts of people living, working, and thinking together—the ultimate triumph of the city.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal,' de Tocqueville wrote, 'but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

Orwell envisioned a future in which an all-seeing dictatorship would stamp out free thinking and outlaw human intimacy. But the internet has given us something far closer to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four.

No bourgeoisie, no democracy.

Some people call this being a nonconformist, but that term misses the point. We don't choose not to conform. We don't even notice what the standard we're not conforming to is!

My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away." After treatment he said, "Now I can put a net around the butterflies.

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Beware of the deadly donky, falling from the sky' you can choose the way you live, my friend, but not the way you die.

The most important reason to wind down the operation was that time was worth more to me than the extra money. Vivian and I wanted to enjoy our children and their families, and to travel, read, and learn. It was time once again to change course in life.

This sounded like it would be interesting for a while, but I didn't think I would have the freedom I expected to find in academia to follow my interests wherever they led.

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.