Quotes About Freedom

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

At its heart, socialism is about the creation of a new society, built from the bottom up, through the struggles of ordinary working people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice—one that eliminates profit and power as the prime goals of life, and instead organizes our world around the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.

At its heart, socialism is about the creation of a new society, built from the bottom up, through the struggles of ordinary working people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice—one that eliminates profit and power as the prime goals of life, and instead organizes our world around the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom. The

Bertie looked up from the comic he was reading. "It's OK," he said. "I can look after myself." It would be great not having a babysitter. Suzy was sleeping over at Bella's so he would have the house all to himself.

The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse."

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Love your rage, not your cage.

EARTHLY PLEASURES and satisfactions bring many good feelings, but joy comes from a higher source. Because joy is a spiritual quality, it can arise independent of the worldly circumstances that happen to be present in someone's life at any given moment. And so the songbird of joy is ready to sing within a person who is rich or poor, healthy or ailing, captive or free, as long as it is fed a diet of spiritual seeds.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

I'm glad that civil liberties continue to have some standing in this country.

Jesus said the truth will set us free. What he didn't mention was how nothing is quite as elusive as getting to that truth.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.

Humans are exempt from biology.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Sometimes I think that I've never been so free as during that couple of hours when I'm trotting up the path out of the gates and turning by that bare-faced, big-bellied oak tree at the lane end. Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive.

As soon as you were born you were captured by fresh air that you screamed against the minute you came out. Then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck, and then you were hooked up by the arse with a wife.