Quotes About Freedom

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.

If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.

Being free always involves being lonely.

May kingship benefit the land, And wisdom grow in scholars' band; May Shiva see my faith on earth And make me free of all rebirth.

Si tus ligaduras no son quebrantadas mientras vives ¿Qué esperanza de liberación puedes tener en la muerte?

Kako lahko nekdo, ki je v okovih, osvobodi okovanega ?loveka? Odrešitev pri?akuj le od nekoga, ki je že svoboden.

Piš?al Neskon?nega neprenehoma igra, njen zvok je ?ista ljubezen. Ko se ljubezen osvobodi spon, seže po resnici. Kako širno se razlega ta zven! Nima konca in ni? mu ne stoji napoti. Podoba te melodije sije kakor milijone sonc. To brenkalo je brez primere- brenkalo, ki oddaja note resnice.

Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

MacLeish wrote. He harshly criticized Soviet tyranny, but lamented the fact that so many Americans were willing to sacrifice their civil liberties in the name of anticommunism.