Quotes About Freedom

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

I'd rather dance than eat.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.