Quotes About Freedom

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.

You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man.

He could see it now. Oh, yes, all as he ran in the sun, his legs liquid springs.

Political correctness, no matter how well intentioned, is still an attack on freedom of speech.

what the Course is teaching is that you can undo the ego that's in your mind, have the Holy Spirit heal all of your unconscious guilt, and be free. The fastest way to do that is to change the way you look at other people, events, and situations. It also teaches you how to do that.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

There's a message I want to deliver in this book: I love my country and I'm grateful to be an American. I know where my freedom comes from, and I do not take for granted the sacrifices of those who provide it. Because of that, I want to do all I can to ensure America's defenders and their families are never forgotten.

Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, hand handed on for them to do the same.

It doesn't matter what others do to me or what circumstances I face every day, I determine all of my feelings, sad or happy, by what I choose to think and how I choose to react to what happens to me. I love that freedom.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Charles Maddox noted that "when I am told that the flag means 'nigger on top,' and that I can't stand under it and cast my ballot without asking a nigger's permission, then I think it is time to rescue the flag from the infamy that threatens

The Civil War, therefore, presented three issues: (1) however flawed the circumstances, human freedom was at stake; (2) the territorial and political integrity of the United States was at stake; and (3) the survival of the democratic process—republican government of, by, and for the people—was at stake.

Strahov jeze in ljubosumnosti, ki izmali?ijo osebnost, ne moremo razumevati lo?eno od karmi?nih okoliš?in, zaradi katerih so. Ko razumete in resni?no razumete, da so izkušnje vašega življenja potrebne za uravnoteženje energije vaše duše, imate vso svobodo, da se ne odzivate nanje osebno, da ne ustvarjate ve? negativne karme za svojo dušo.

Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.

however, part of what it means for a democratic polity to accord equal respect and concern to all its members, is to accord to each person an equal opportunity (via communication) to shape the moral, political, and cultural environment in which they live, something that can happen only by embracing a wide, almost untrammelled right to freedom of speech and communication.