Quotes About Freedom

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

As Freya Stark herself had put it: 'To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

Thirty-five years of intimidating and dreary Islamic rule had created a rose-tinted view of the pre-revolutionary era. The arrests, the intimidation, the decadence of the elite, the horrors of SAVAK; it had all been forgotten, replaced by a revised, romantic version of the good old days. Among Iranians of a certain age and class, the swinging sixties and seventies are recalled with a poetic yearning nostalgia; an era of mini-skirts, freedom and hedonism.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

Let whatever you do or whatever appears Just be in its natural state, without premeditation. That is true freedom.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

Letting go is the best revenge. It frees your heart for much more satisfying pursuits.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.