Quotes About Freedom

Only one who risks is free.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

??çi, kuramsal olarak, istedi?ini yapabilen "özgür" bir ki?idir. Oysa gerçekte, i?çinin özgürlü?ü iyice s?n?rl?d?r. ??verenin ileri sürdü?ü ezici ko?ullar? kabul etmek ya da açl??? seçmek aras?nda özgürdür.

Ba?kan Roosevelt'in 11 Ocak 1944 günü Kongreye sundu?u mesaj?nda belirtti?i gibi "ihtiyaçlar?n pençesinde k?vranan bir insan, özgür insan de?ildir

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

A mulher é privada de direitos porque ela é privada de instrução, e a falta de instrução provém da ausência de direitos. Não esqueçamos que a escravidão da mulher é tão antiga que muito frequentemente somos incapazes de compreender o abismo legal que a separa de nós.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

Rock the Casbah!

Kit in the bough of the tree.

Me and my merry band of mutant bird kids.

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance.

The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.

The need to fear such things was ended