Quotes About Freedom

Your mind is a horse you ride, Merrick. No one can hold the reins for you -- Grandad

Jesus thought he was anointed by God to proclaim the gospel to the poor and to proclaim freedom for prisoners and recovered sight for the blind and to set the oppressed free. This is why he came.

He experiences for us what we do not want but deserve (slavery and death), and provides for us what we do want but don't deserve (a life of freedom).

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

Stacy waited till she was certain he'd fallen asleep, then slipped free of his grasp, edging backward, leaving his hand lying open on the tent's floor, palm up, slightly cupped, like a beggar's. She imagined dropping a coin into it, late at night on some dark city street; she pictured herself hurrying off, never to see him again.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence.

It's not a new, radical idea for work to have meaning and for workers to have both great freedom and pride in the work itself. Instead those ideas are rooted in the origins of work; we've just lost our way.

Exactly!" shouted Sarin the crab, now standing on hind legs. The looks of fear had subsided from the faces of the creatures. "We have a right to be happy, and live well my friends. That's why I'm telling you all to eat to your heart's content!

I'll be damned if my family, uncles, cousins fought, bled, sacrificed all on foreign beaches to free millions of people being tortured and killed by insane genocidal fascists AS WELL AS trying to keep the rest of the world safe from these evil monsters, only to find some decades later, flags bearing Swastikas being planted in American soil, if not eventually American political buildings and agencies!

i allowed you to destroy me, my self-confidence, my ego, my identity as a human being and as a man. for years i was a shadow of my former self. the pain you caused was brutal and intense but i have a new life and a new incarnation and you're hardly worth thinking about anymore and being free at last of your clutches, I have a new world to look forward to.

The Wiccan ideal of morality is simple: do what you want, as long as you harm none.

Although we honor and revere the Goddess and God, we know that we're free souls with full control and responsibility of our lives. We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

It always requires more strength to make someone free than it does to keep that person in bondage.

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

Land has its pirates, same as the sea

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.

Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us?

but tonight I'm on leave from everything. No 'Spire, no archon, no Durenna, no Lexicon, no navigational tables. Just simple arithmetic. Drink plus drinker equals drunk. Join me.