Quotes About Freedom

One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they're not chosen. We are blessed with the freedom to make choices that people in most times and places don't get to make. The special temptation of living in a society where we have personal liberties is the seductive idea that obligations are less binding, or not binding at all, if we came under them through birth or other circumstances beyond our control.

Many worried that the public was increasingly confusing freedom with debauched egoism. "A new competitiveness was abroad in the land," Wood says, "and people seemed to be almost at war with one another."4 It was a season of "inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for," as the theologian William Ellery Channing described his times.5

Never before in history could so many white men consider themselves so free. Jacksonian settlers moved across the frontier, continuing to win a greater liberty by putting down people of color, and then continuing to define their liberty in opposition to the people of color they put down.

Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never own me.

If vou choose the airline of autonomy you're going to have to end up where you don't want to be, illogical, immoral, unfree with no dignity. And at that point the choice is between life and death. Spiritual life and death, moral life and death, intellectual life and death.

John Gerstner similarly observes, "Christ's affirmation of the moral law was complete. Rather than setting His disciples free from the law, He tied them more tightly to it. He abrogated not one commandment but instead intensified all.

So when she wasn't sleeping or just sitting and listening to the storm or tinkering at her workbench, she flew.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

I don't like limits. Being told what is possible. By man or nature. Just like you." "No," Evan said. "You want to be everything. I want to be one thing well.

The opportunity to be imprisoned or free is ours, and we're the only ones who can make the choice.

There's a subtle yet significant difference between leaving our jobs, friends, and romances because we're complete and staying with them because of the fear that there's nothing else for us!

Have you been worried since he broke out?" Jade asked. "Well, I suppose worried isn't quite the word for it. Concerned. Concerned is a better word.

I was free. Free also means nothing.

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

The price of freedomof individualityis attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is driven underground once more. Too many solutions involve continuing sacrifice by artists bucking the system, who are rarely rewarded for their hard work.