Quotes About Freedom

The invaders numbered almost four hundred thousand, Milorg roughly forty thousand. There could have been an ugly fight, but there was none. At last Norway was free, and parties broke out in the streets of Oslo and throughout the country.

A month passed before Tronstad gained passage to Britain, from where he hoped to continue his fight to free Norway.

You have to fight for your freedom and for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose. —JOACHIM RØNNEBERG, Gunnerside leader

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. —WILLIAM BLAKE, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

While freedom gives rise to growth and enlightenment, permission allows evil to flourish in a light of day that would otherwise destroy it.

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound, says Connor. I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this. He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. We have a right to our lives! The kids go wild. We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies! The cheers reach fever pitch. We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Don't I have a choice in this?" But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all. And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there.

I long for the luxury of being impractical.

the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.

An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn't at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

I hadn't lived a real life?I'd had just a model of a life. Everything I did, everything I thought , was suspended safely by strings, too high up for anyone to damage. Zero contact, zero risk. Now those strings had been cut and I was going to die, never having had a chance to live without them.

Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.

I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.

Being made to suffer pain frees us to feel the joy of being human.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.