Quotes About Freedom

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.