Quotes About Freedom

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.