Quotes About Freedom

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that's in the world.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.