Quotes About Freedom

The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. 'We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,' he told the whites, 'and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Even the wide sea and the open sky can be claustrophobic if you never get away from them.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

If man no longer finds any meaning in his life, it makes no difference whether he wastes away under a communist or a capitalist regime. Only if he can use his freedom to create something meaningful is it relevant that he should be free. That is why finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else, and why the process of individuation must be given priority.

The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Only man as an individual human being lives; the state is just a system, a mere machine for sorting and tabulating the masses. Anyone, therefore, who thinks in terms of men minus the individual, in huge numbers, atomizes himself and becomes a thief and a robber to himself. He is infected with the leprosy of collective thinking and has become an inmate of that insalubrious stud-farm called the totalitarian State. Our

But what a dreary world it would be if the rules were not violated sometimes!

Many people may want some change from a containing pattern of life; but the freedom gained by travel (urged by the "run away to sea" poster), is no substitute for a true inner liberation.

If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices.

Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. "Freedom" is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Pages 310-311.

Any of us can see, of course, that there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

AvÅ¡ak jako tv?r?í ?lovÄ›k je jedinec vystaven tomu, že není svobodný, nýbrž jej poutá a pudí démon.

Creativeness, like the freedom of the will, contains a secret. The psychologist can describe both these manifestations as processes, but he can find no solution of the philosophical problems they offer.

there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

Quien ha nacido y venido a este mundo para conocer la verdad, no puede perseverar en la ignorancia, el impulso es real en él, es indómito y rebelde. Sufre enórmemente bajo el peso y dominio de la falsedad, la calumnia, el engaño, la muerte continua; está sediento de libertad, de justicia, de vida real y de verdad

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Flight from life does not free us from the law of age and death.

Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.

The redeeming symbol is a highway, a way upon which life can move forward without torment and compulsion.

There are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. —Aung San Suu Kyi, "Freedom from Fear