Quotes About Freedom

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

He knew why the birds chose not to fly away, lingering until it was no longer an option. Did they see themselves flying as high as eagles? Everything needed a dream of itself as greater than it was.

I've never subscribed to the "words can never hurt me" point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But people must be free to say them anyway. We protect free speech not because words are harmless, but because they are powerful.

Obedience liberates me from the tiny world of the ego.

In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.

Lucas wasn't paying for a movie; he was buying his own creative freedom.

American—a child not of old borders and ancient alliances, but of ideals and liberty.

The sons of America," he went on, "have given a new proof how impossible it is to conquer freemen fighting in defense of all that is dear to them. Henceforward we shall be respected by nations who, mistaking our character, had treated us with the utmost contumely and outrage. Years will continue to develop our inherent qualities, until, from being the youngest and the weakest, we shall become the most powerful nation in the universe."21

As an ambassador and an American, Jefferson recognized it was a fear no citizen of a free nation embarking on an oceanic voyage should have to endure.

The sons of America," he went on, "have given a new proof how impossible it is to conquer freemen fighting in defense of all that is dear to them.

In the coming years the enslaved child, by then a man, would quote Auld's words often. They had sparked the crucial understanding that reading and knowledge were the keys to his freedom. Young as he was, Freddy saw that ignorance was a weapon in the hands of the slaveholder, one that was far more dangerous than the whip.

sometimes imagine that I may have felt that I applied a relieving pressure on a life as a benevolent act, in that the subjects were ultimately free from life's pain.

for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity

for Capitol residents, being a real person means a kind of birdlike flight, freed from any kind of gravity - aesthetic, ethical, or relational - an effortless flapping of weightless wings on the way forward toward the always receding and ever more lurid 'final word in entertainment'.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I've become one of those horrible women who goes around saying things like, 'Now that I am old, I shall wear more purple.

We congratulate ourselves on having abandoned our vices, when it is they who have abandoned us.

The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

Afraid perhaps to come to where I've stopped in case you find into some slow and glowing countryside yourself escaping

I don't want to live in the strongest country in the world, I want to live in the freest.

Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free." The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, "How about that?

Freedom means that we become so completely free of self-indulgence that we become servants of one another, expressing love in all we do.

RzÄ…dzi? znaczy sÅ'u?y?, kobieto! Ci, którzy sprawujÄ… wÅ'adzÄ™, sÄ… jej niewolnikami. Tylko wygnaniec jest wolny.

On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free—free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But