Quotes About Freedom

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Grown men do not need leaders.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.