Quotes About Freedom

You say you'll change the Constitution We all want to change your head You tell me 'it's the institution' You'd better free your mind instead.

You tell me it's the institution. Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead. But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow. Don't you know it's gonna be all right?

Seguimos siendo la piedra angular de ese arco de libertad».[103]

Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Mientras nuestros rivales tratan de alcanzar la fortaleza viril desde la misma cuna mediante la más dura de las disciplinas, en Atenas vivimos exactamente como deseamos vivir, y estamos igualmente dispuestos a enfrentar cualquier peligro legítimo.»

Dildos are illegal in Texas.

Revolt is the right of the people

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Chaos was my philosophy. Oh, yeah. Have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

You've got to learn in life, you've got to learn it quick and keep it for the rest of your life: pull your own strings, and have no puppetmaster – and – habits – are – puppetmasters.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and open. In

This answer involves not simply academic pursuits; it affects how a society governs itself, its structure, how its citizens live. If a society does set Goethe's "Word . . . supremely high," if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and

You find your lead, you build your structure, you are now free to write.

Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.