Quotes About Freedom

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom