Quotes About Freedom

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Don't let the enemy convince you to pick up the invoice for your past mistakes. You owe nothing. Jesus already paid the bill.

We are no longer kidnapped, for we walk with God and his spirit lives inside us.

No One Needs You That Much

Sometimes there is more to a person's need for white picket fences than safety, just as sometimes there is more to a person's rebellion than the need to lash out against rules.

I couldn't deal with the kind of need for a man that had ruled my mother's life - the kind of need that made it impossible to breath when self-worth was wrapped up in "I love yous.

Control is just an illusion.

Op dat moment wist ik dat er voor echte vrijheid meer nodig is dan een officiele verklaring. Het gevoel van vrijheid moet daadwerkelijk in iemands ziel wortelen. Blijkbaar is het net zo zeer een geestelijke gesteldheid als een wet.

Who destroys books? Cities, churches, dictators and fanatics. Their fingers itch to build a pyre and strike the match. On 10 May 1933, students gathered in Berlin to dance around a bonfire of 25,000 volumes of 'un-German' books. They burned, amongst many others, Bertolt Brecht, Otto Dix, Heinrich Heine, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and H.G. Wells. They destroyed them because the contents were too dangerous.

You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.

the truth don't always set you free, forgiveness do!

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

and a new dress because her asshole husband had bought an ugly funeral outfit she was stuck in for eternity

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black dot, fall off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate, wavering muslin of a parachute -- a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, a man who by stitches, cloth, and cord, had made himself a god of the sky.

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

This love is not a melting of self, a softened apprehension of the other. The loved one need not meet my gaze, acknowledge my presence, approve or know of me.

Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.