Quotes About Freedom

It is impossible to control creation.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.

Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

My heart is happy, my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!