Quotes About Freedom

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

Individuality is freedom lived.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.