Quotes About Freedom

Woven of fad and fancy, commerce and technology, war and revolution, freedom and necessity, our individual histories testify to the singular but crooked paths along which we traveled to the present.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Force us to yield. 'Twill never be too late To sue6 for chains and own7 a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time? No, let us draw her term of freedom out 95 In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty; And let me perish, but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Cato Would Lucius have me live to swell the number Of Caesar's slaves, or by a base submission 30 Give up the cause of Rome, and own a tyrant?

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

Fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our souls go free at last. Take me to that happy place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return, but where great singers sing their songs forever.

O homem não deve odiar o que adorou, pode unicamente libertar-se, afastar-se, desprender-se disso.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,And when we find ourselves in the place just right,'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free, whole individuals this good earth has prepared us to be.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

T]he art of the legislator is not to make a people free, but free enough...

In all the acts of the French Revolution, one can hear the voice of divinity saying, 'I want to show you what you can do without me.

What I've done means no witch can ever control you like that. It's my mark, see. My brand. It warns them off. Apart from that, it don't mean much, though. Not if you don't want it to. Don't have to sit next to me. Movie if you want. Do you want to go?" I shook my head. "I'm happy sitting here next to you." "And I'm happy here sitting next to you. So we're both happy. What can be wrong with that?

We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

America, which he never visited, he called "that monstrous prison of freedom . . . where the most repulsive of tyrants, the populace, holds vulgar sway" and "all men are equal—equal dolts

The Special Forces motto was "De Oppresso Liber," not "Libre." Which meant "To liberate the oppressed.

His period of imprisonment also convinced him that the need for freedom, particularly the sense of being able to exercise one is free will, was an ineradicable need of the human personality and could express itself even in apparently self – destructive forms if no other outlet where possible.

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

The commitment to morality, or non-harming, is a source of tremendous strength, because it helps free the mind from the remorse of having done unwholesome actions. Freedom from remorse leads to happiness. Happiness leads to concentration. Concentration brings wisdom. And wisdom is the source of peace and freedom in our lives.