Quotes About Freedom

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

It is only at a high stage of individuation, made possible at first by the painted or carved image, the written symbol, and the printed book, that true freedom-the freedom to escape from the passing moment and the present visible place, to challenge past experience or modify future action-can be achieved. To be aware only of immediate stimuli and immediate sensations is a medical indication of brain injury.

But instead of freeing labor, the royal mega-machine boasted of imprisoning and enslaving it.

Each one of us, as long as life stirs in him, may play a part in extricating himself from the power system by asserting his primacy as a person in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate him from the domination of the pentagon of power.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge to go abroad.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

Hong Kong people do not keep silent and I urge people around the world to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and the passion with which people are fighting for basic rights. We never give up and we will not be silenced.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.