Quotes About Freedom

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Alles prüfe der Mensch, dass er Danken für alles lernt und verstehe die Freiheit, aufzubrechen, wohin er will.

Hield mij aan't leven der mensen dit hart maar niet meer gebonden, dat van liefde niet aflaat, hoe graag zou ik mét u hier wonen!

Das gibt dem Menschen seine ganze Jugend, daß er Fesseln zerreißt.

Convictions are prisons.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

I would only believe in a god who could dance.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

There is a false saying: "How can someone who can't save himself save others?" Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?

Your educators can only be your liberators.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.