Quotes About Freedom

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such a great meaning.

love is larger than the walls that shut it in. M

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

She knew her artwork reflected a side of her personality she didn't typically let out. The side that wasn't completely concerned with getting everything right. In a way, art gave her a chance to play.

People don't always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.

The most important thing about money is that it buys you freedom. The more money you have, the more options you have.

I rise and turn back.... leaving the rest of the world to coyotes who are now running across the mountain together, howling and yipping behind me, calling for the frozen night to come.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.

My own belief is that two adults are allowed to love who they want, and if you don't agree with that, you are a narrow-minded shitfuck and we can't be friends.

She smiles and then runs as fast as she can toward them.

In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night. While you drift on currents of seraphim heights, it is I who deserve to take flight.

I long to drift through turquoise skies; race the wind in rampant flight. Ruddy chains have framed my eyes, they seize my heart and stain the light.

If only I had feathered wings, that could bend and curve and reach, beyond imagined dreams, unhindered by the weight of earth.

Golden bars make no less a prison than a coffin on a hill. And in caged reformation, one wanders aimless still. The rafters now a recollection of sacred suppression. How the morning dawn strikes mourning confession. Now Death yields a harvest of the living masses. We walk toward its path no earthly power surpasses.

This morning I breathe iced air, and wander toward the waves. For a moment I live without care; a moment all my heart craves.

Freedom lies in being bold. — Robert Frost