Quotes About Freedom

The wonderful paradox about the truth of suffering is that the more we open to it and understand it, the lighter and freer our mind becomes. Our mind becomes more spacious, more open, and happier as we move past our avoidance and denial to see what is true. We become less driven by compulsive desires and addictions, because we see clearly the nature of things as they are.

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

Five, six, seven eight-," Cecil grinned. "-Gay is just as good as straight," Dave said.

From now on," he said, "I'm through catching planes." To the beat of their heels on the massive old planks, he almost started whistling in the rain.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?"

Hail, Columbia! happy land!Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

pas les nazis qui m'épingleront à cinquante berges.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty

Un immonde vieillard essayait de suborner le pays. "Soyez sages, soyez lâches, enseignait-il. Oubliez que vous avez été fiers, joyeux et libres. Obéissez et souriez au vainqueur. Il vous laissera vivoter tranquilles.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I quoted Menand's restatement of Kierkegaard: Anxiety is the price humans pay for freedom. My restatement of Kierkegaard and Menand is that anxiety is the price humans pay for autonoetic consciousness.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Abbiamo sempre una scelta. Siamo anzi la somma delle nostre scelte.

since a practically engineerable open-systems physics implies the democratization not only of energy, but its corollaries, finance and political power, across a very broad spectrum of people, as a greater mass of people would be lifted up to greater wealth, freedom, and prosperity.

He could not write what he wanted, but what he had to.

To allow a baptized child, when he attains the use of reason, to choose freely between the true and a false re ligion, to decide whether he will keep the holy law of God or repudiate it at pleasure, betrays rank indifferent-ism.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Let people move themselves. Don't insist on doing it for them.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

For the world to follow, we must do more than rattle our sabers and demand allegienace to our vision simply because we believe we are right. We must provide a reason for others to aspire to that vision. And that reason must come with more than the repetition of a bumper-sticker phrase about freedom and democracy. It must come with more than the restatement of failed policy. It must come with the wisdom to admit when we are wrong and resolve to change course and get it right.

I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.