Quotes About Freedom

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

All people are enslaved by something.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.