Quotes About Freedom

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

The true object of human life is play.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Your world is as big as you make it.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.