Quotes About Freedom

Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.

Choice, it seemed, was one of the first casualties of war.

Maurice had disappeared after breakfast. He was a nine-year-old boy and free to go where he pleased with whomsoever he pleased, although he tended to keep to the exclusive company of other nine-year-old boys. Sylvie had no idea what they did but at the end of the day he would return, filthy from head to toe and with some unappetizing trophy, a jar of frogs or worms, a dead bird, the bleached skull of some small creature.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Free men set themselves free.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.