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Quotes About Freedom

Truth cannot be structured or confined.
~ Bruce Lee
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
~ William S. Burroughs
Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.
~ Brandon Bays
Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
~ Chow Yun-Fat
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
~ Mark Nepo
He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.
~ Robert Pollok
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
~ Boris Pasternak
Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again
~ Christopher Dodd
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.
~ Madame de Stael
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
~ Muhammad Yunus
Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
~ Ann Aguirre, Grimspace
The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.
~ Jon Foreman
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
~ Sabrina Ward Harrison
I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
~ William Carlos Williams
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
~ David O. McKay
We are free to yield to truth.
~ Horace
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
~ Greg Egan
The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.
~ Ethan Hawke
I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .
~ Paul Beatty
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
~ Alan Cohen
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
~ John Locke
Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
~ Pat Buchanan