Quotes About Freedom

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.

Getting rid of you is a good thing, that's why I don't write you back I'm vomiting every memory from my system

Freedom gives you everything you need to fail on a monumental scale.

Not enough samurai in the world today. Just a bunch of assholes running wild with much too much freedom." Henry Rollins, from his book Solipsist.

Stay away from people They'll slow you down and break your heart

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Life is big business, fornication, and death. Civilisation is ... the sterilising of truth ... Civilisation is world-citizenship and freedom from tradition, based on rootless eternal wandering in the mind that had nothing to lose and everything to gain including the whole world.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.