Quotes About Freedom

Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

If modern dervishes are no more than "traditional hippies," still I feel that the world has a secret but absolute need for the presence of such wild free spirits, just as it needs the presence of some wilderness, unplanned, unmanaged, apparently profitless, chaotic as God first made it. (And both of these needs seem to fall under the patronage of the master traveler, Khezr himself).

The promise of the new covenant is not that we're liberated from God's word, but that we're liberated to keep it.

And the people - confused, embittered, hungry, fearful - will bow their heads and accept the inevitable. They will trade in their freedoms forever for the promise of security today.

Love brings life, wisdom brings light and knowledge, while truth brings freedom.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment - now!

The '60s were an amazing time.

You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other.

She had traded a dangerous freedom for the surety of slavery. Not

When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,"[ 49] he was inviting us to be free.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

Do.As.Thou.Wilt.

the pope had granted the accademia di San Luca the annual right – on saint Luke's day – to free a condemned man.

But he couldn't feel self-pity in the face of the memorial. He hadn't lost nearly enough as these children, who'd lost their homeland and, in many cases,their whole families. Perhaps they had gained something, too, though. They had at least escaped the concentration camps, been taken in by good, caring families, and had grown up to live their lives in relative freedom.

It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.

You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things.

The event testified to within Christianity is evident in a life that has been freed from an idolatrous existence that turns us from the world to an iconic engagement with the world.

You step outside, because real running is done outside, dammit, in the open air, where the endorphins hide.

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

Am I growing in the freedom God gave me?

By the very act of refusing to succumb to the enormous pressure of Western culture around us, we, too, serve as a sign of a free people. We have been called out of a world trying to prove its worth and value by what it does or possesses. We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.