Quotes About Freedom

Abitha laughed loud and hard, realized it was more than this bawdy song, it was being able to let her hair down, to be her vulgar, sassy self in front of someone again, even if that someone might be the Devil himself.

freedom in its essence is the acceptance of the chains which suit you and for which you are suited, and of the harness in which you pull towards an end chosen and valued by yourself, and not imposed. It is not, and never can be, the absence of restrictions, obligations or law and of duty.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

People really don't want such a direct encounter with God because then they have no excuse if they disobey Him. God's laws are so black-and-white. We'd rather be free to choose if we will follow Him in any given situation.

Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

But when we are faithful to keep ourselves in His holy presence, and set Him always before us, this not only hinders our offending Him and doing anything that may displease Him, at least wilfully, but it also begets in us a holy freedom, and, if I may so speak, a familiarity with God, wherewith we ask, and that successfully, the graces we stand in need of. In

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers" or "a greenhouse for spiritual sprouts."15

It is better that we make our own history than be governed by the dead--William O. Douglas

Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

After all, our experience tends to confirm that on one end of the political spectrum we have autocrats and tyrants—horrible, selfish thugs who occasionally stray into psychopathology. On the other end, we have democrats—elected representatives, presidents, and prime ministers who are the benevolent guardians of freedom. Leaders from these two worlds, we assure ourselves, must be worlds apart! It's a convenient fiction, but a fiction nonetheless.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

He went back to his solitary wanderings. Believing any set of four walls to be a tomb or a trap, he preferred to float over the most barren of open spaces.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

The human will does not attain grace through freedom, but rather freedom through grace.

I have established a very good rule, which I pass on to you: Never do anything just because other people do it.