Quotes About Freedom

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Planning lets you impose order on the chaotic process of making something new, but when it's taken too far you get locked into a status quo, and creative thinking is about breaking free from the status quo, even from one you made yourself.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?

Again, the main issue is not control-seeking bosses versus freedom-seeking workers; very often the person most likely to restrict the workplace freedom of one worker is another worker.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

When people you love pass on, and they know without a shadow of a doubt that you loved them, there's not a trace of regret. You're both set free.

When people have never felt the power of their own wings, they can't imagine taking flight.

Finally she said, "Come on, honey, let's go to the ranch.

Soon after it was finished in the 1820s, the Capitol began to be called the "Temple of Liberty" because it was dedicated to the cherished ideas of freedom, equality, and self determination.

The project of translating liberal ideas of freedom into the institutional framework of liberal democracy involved suppressing such alternate ideas of liberty, of in effect rendering them Other. The increasingly powerful template of racial difference in the modern era provided an influential way of doing so.

David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966), explored at length the paradox of slavery and freedom in human history, noting that John Locke and other advocates of liberty at times supported the institution of human bondage.38 Other historians have noted the extent to which the call for freedom often assumed the form of a rejection of servitude, even among slaveholders themselves.39

Hold on too tightly and the kids rebel; hold on too loosely and all things go to hell.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

là où il n'y a pas de choix, il n'y a pas non plus de place pour une vie morale quelconque.

Unlimited freedom kills freedom.

When once we are freed from the goal [of solving problems], the question of whether it is a positive approach or a negative approach does not even arise.

Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against "sorrow" is sorrow. Since you can't stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.

I tell you, when you stop doing things out of hope and the desire for continuity, all you do along with it stops. You will stay afloat.

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".

Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.

freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.

When you'r no longer identified with roles and labels and conventional definition of person