Quotes About Freedom

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

God came down in Jesus not to prepare us for the next world but to set us free to live in this world the way Jesus lived, which was the costly way of reconciling love, relentless hope, reverberating joy.

How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right to exist in a free world.

Only himself manacles man.

Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him, and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in his inmost heart, the blessing: Peace unto all living things.

Thought and action are the jailers of Fate -- they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom -- they liberate being noble.

L'étape suivante est une infinie réaction au principe créateur qui suit la Loi Une dans une de ses distorsions primales: la liberté de volonté. Ainsi, de très, très nombreuses dimensions, en nombre infini, sont possibles.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

If you can't walk away from a negotiation, then you aren't negotiating. You're just working out the terms of your slavery.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

Everything must belong to everybody and must present the hypothesis of a world without god, without king, without government, without masters.

So here is the paradox, freedom is dependence upon God. It is a paradox, but it is absolutely clear. The human being – the concrete human person, me, you – once we were not, now we are, and tomorrow will no longer be: thus we depend. And either we depend upon the flux of our material antecedents, and are consequently slaves of the powers that be, or we depend upon What lies at the origin of the movement of all things, beyond them, which is to say, God.

Libertà è accettare

Man's contribution, then, lies in the fact that man is able to cry out, "Christ, save me!" Man's freedom is summed up in the entreaty, "Accepting that all is grace, I ask you for grace." This is how we completely take into account both the fact that all is grace and the fact that, for its effect, Christ's grace depends on my freedom, too.

La prima cosa che l'educatore deve fare è aiutare il cuore dell'educando a domandare al mistero dell'Essere, che costituisce l'altra sponda del flusso, perché abbia a rispondere, ma prima ancora abbia a sollecitare più attivamente, più compostamente, sempre più compostamente, sempre più chiaramente gli aspetti dei problemi che la libertà esprime, esplicita.

No wonder Americans seemed crazy to everybody else--they were utterly alone in the vastness of this ridiculously immense land. They all skittered about, alighting and flying off again like frantic butterflies. Looking for--what? What were they looking for?

You are always in a universe of choices. Any moment of your life can go in any direction you choose.

SHORT FORM OF THE SERENITY PRAYER—FUCK IT.

Auch das praktische Leben ist ein schwarzes Loch, das uns in den Tod führt. Revolution, Anarchie, Freiheit sind der Lohn des Denkens. Sie haben nur einen einzigen Thron, unseren Kopf.