Quotes About Freedom

One of my favorite activities is just to drive and listen to music - of course, only when there's no traffic.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.