Quotes About Freedom

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and happiness.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

Jim Morrison: I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos—especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. External revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside—reach the mental through the physical.

You can't keep brilliance; you let it shine, and then you have to let it go.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse's religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.

Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves.

Denorah hates that she'd believed that, once upon a time. And she wants to cry for not getting to believe it anymore. Yes, the deer drank milk, and that left their mouths ringed white. Fuck it. Run, run.

And it's not just Freddy to watch for in a place like this. Wishmaster could step into the passage between the two cells, use his drug dealer voice to ask her if she'd like to walk through these solid bars to freedom, and if Jade was tired enough, she might not remember to word this wish with utmost care, and end up being pulled like taffy through the steel bars. No thank you.

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

And as he quite rightly went on to say . . . For man has closed himself up, till he sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

I was never able to find it in the analysis of chemicals or in degree programs or in any of my schools. But sometimes I find it in the soft flutter of butterflies, in the wildness of plants growing undomesticated in a forest clearing, in the laughter and running of young children, their hair flowing in the wind, and sometimes, sometimes I find it in the words of teachers who come among us from time to time—out there, far outside these walls, in the wildness of the world.

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

El liberalismo político y económico depende de la confianza en que los individuos pueden manejar sus propias vidas. Se les da poder político y libertad económica sólo en la medida en que se piensa que son capaces de usarlos sabiamente.

Bonhoeffer and Luther draw on Christ's paradox of gaining one's life by losing it. So we come to the ultimate paradox: by service—and ultimately, by sacrifice—we are free, we are happy, we live the good life. True freedom is only freedom in Christ. True freedom, as Luther points out, is found in serving others. Bonhoeffer echoes that notion.

This poem, "Stations on the Road to Freedom," echoes the Christ-centered or christotelic emphasis we have come to see in so much of Bonhoeffer's writings. In Christ's humiliation we see discipline, action, suffering, and ultimately death. In Christ's crucifixion we see all four as well. And in Christ's resurrection we see his triumph over death and over suffering. In the risen and living Christ we see the triumph of freedom.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

Demasiados hombres solo se arrepienten a medias de su pecado y luego culpan a Dios por no haber sido liberados. Desean ser libres de la culpa en vez de tener intimidad con su Hacedor. En vez de «divorciarse» del pecado, optan por una «separación temporal»Ã¢â'¬Â¦ hasta más tarde. Se niegan a vivir en la victoria que la gracia de Cristo les ofrece gratuitamente.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.