Quotes About Freedom

She had been meant to die, yet she'd cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.

She was taking her own liberties with him. Was this liberation?

The notion of following your heart's desire, of going wherever you chose, did not exist here, and I did not see any way to let them know what it felt like, especially since, after so little time in their system, I had lost my own sense of freedom.

We accepted our situation meekly. How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence. In this world, there were no individual demands, and asking permission for everything was infantilizing. So we began to understand our students, who had never been able to do anything on their own.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Independence is happiness.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

What I want most of all is that you live in uprightness and freedom of spirit, no matter how difficult that may be. —Robert Scholl

Everyone craves security. But gaining freedom means losing security.

Everyone craves security, but gaining freedom means loosing security.

The War of Independence was not a heroic enterprise but the result of a political miscalculation.

But a wild creature will always go back to the wild, in the end.

the sky dark with wheeling birds.

If indeed there were a God, civil rights was surely his work.

As you gain more control over your past and present relationship with your parents, you will discover that your other relationships, especially your relationship with yourself, will improve dramatically. You will have the freedom, perhaps for the first time, to enjoy your own life.

Children have a right to be children. They have a right to spend their early years being playful, spontaneous, and irresponsible.