Quotes About Freedom

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Twist and shout, métetelo donde te quepa... eso y no La Internacional era su himno.

Sabbath had the power, and he knew it, of being no one with anything much to lose.

Everybody masturbates in libraries. That's what they're for.

Puppets can fly, levitate, twirl, but only people and marionettes are confined to running and walking.

intenté escribir lo que fue la «historia de mi vida» en los bosques, inmediatamente después de mi fuga del campo de concentración.

an aging man imprisoned on Goli Otok as an enemy of the regime

grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil.

If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

We sometimes use the term "savior complex" to describe an unhealthy syndrome of obsession over curing others' problems. The true Savior, however, seemed remarkably free of such a complex. He had no compulsion to convert the entire world in his lifetime or to cure people who were not ready to be cured.

Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?

But what if I create a universe that is free, free even of me? What if I veil My Divinity so that the creatures are free to pursue their individual lives without being overwhelmed by My overpowering Presence? Will the creatures love Me? Can I be loved by creatures whom I have not programmed to adore me forever? Can love arise out of freedom? My angels love me unceasingly, but they can see Me at all times. What if I create beings in My own image as a Creator, beings who are free? But

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.