Quotes About Freedom

Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

California, here I come.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say "thou slave.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

I think we're all bad judges of what goes on in other people's minds about God, Mr. Smith. It's a bad thing to force a God on a man who doesn't want one. It's worse to stand in the way of a man who wants one badly.

Und daraus schöpfe ich die Bestätigung meiner Überzeugung, daß, was den Geist im Innersten bewegt, das Verlangen nach uneingeschränkter Freiheit ist, und daß dieser Drang ausnahmslos von seinem Gegenteil begleitet ist, von der Furcht vor den Folgen der Freiheit.

the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon.

They even found themselves able to die if they wanted to.

Don't put your life in someone's hands They bound to steal it away Don't hide your mistakes 'Cause they'll find you, burn you

If I could remove fear from my life, uproot it, who would I be? she wonders. What would it feel like to live for today and let the future remain in the future? How much lighter her burdens would seem.

It was as if a gust of wind had blown open a window in my heart and a sweet bird had flown in and made a nest.

First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by that? When I with the husband, I seeing everything through his eyes - moon, sun, sky, tree, parking lot, store, everything. If he feeling sun too hot, I feeling upset. If he cursing the cold, I angry with snow. My brains not thinking my own thoughts.

Relying on the boat of a human body, Free yourself from the great river of pain! As it is hard to find this boat again, This is no time to sleep, you fool. [11]

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.