Quotes About Freedom

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.