Quotes About Freedom

What's in the raging flame of banned books burning? Knowledge, truth, learning, courage, freedom, yearning.

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

To burn one book is to burn the entire library.

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

Wildness dances Inhibition stumbles

A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds...

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where...

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

Let's live with that small pittance that we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

The day is past when women want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. They like to get out and do things.

This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.

Fear of death is fear of life— and fear of life is fear of all that is.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.

Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!

Love is not having to hold your farts in anymore.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.