Quotes About Freedom

Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Life is too short to be sensible.

She will not bow to anyone, she was born to run with wolves not to be fenced in with sheep. Hunt her with respect.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

Don't think that you were born to gain this or that level of comfort. You were born to study pain and the causes of pain, and to follow the practice that frees you from pain. This is the most important thing there is. Everything else is trivial and unimportant. All that's important lies with the practice.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Inner creativity is always there - it just has to be released from its prison.

Princess Harriet celebrated her newfound freedom by jumping from the top of the highest tower in the kingdom into the moat. She survived three jumps and a belly-flop, because the curse did indeed have to keep her alive until her twelfth birthday. Wicked fairies put a lot of work into their curses, and they hate to see them thwarted by unfortunate accidents.

Broad views about life have shrunk into religions, and we have been turned into their symbols. They regard us as empty symbols. Symbols of a religion, a nation. We mustn't be trapped by that. In this war, let that be the ground of your contest. A ground that cannot be reduced to definition and detail.

Use heart energy, transform and create - reclaim your sovereignty

und weil sie schon vorher gewusst hatte dass Freiheit nicht das Anderskönnen bedeutet sondern das Andersmüssen...

Sometimes I wonder who my mother might be if she weren't married to my father. Everyone around him seems that much less free-spirited, that much less open to possibility, so much more controlled. At her office she is loud and filled with infectious laugher. Here she is more quiet and deferential. I can cut a cucumber, I say more sharply than I intend. She winces and busies herself with searching for a vegetable peeler, if only to make a point.

Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.

The Communist state knew, better than the Czech-Californian philosopher, where the greatest danger to it lay; in the realm of the intellect and the spirit. That the state was less and less successful at doing so is another matter, which merely confirms how right it was to be afraid; for, despite all the bribes and prizes and titles thrown their way, the artists were among the first to rebel.

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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

You make your own life.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.