Quotes About Freedom

I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

I guess I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. The key is in the door and it can always be opened.

Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew.

It was America, after all. The sort of place where you should be allowed to walk as high as you wanted. But what if you were the one walking underneath? What if the tightrope walker really had fallen? It was quite possible that he could have killed not just himself, but a dozen people below. Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

The thing about the Occupation is that it never let you decide. It took away your ability for choice. Banish it and choice would appear.

Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?

Was there not wage slavery? Were there not the chains of financial oppression?

He was there, he said, to raise just a single hat, but eventually that hat would raise the heavens. He would go forth as a slave no more.

Möge ihnen die Liebe für immer ihre Schwingen leihen, so dass ihre Füße nie wieder den Boden berühren.

The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along!

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There

I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space.