Quotes About Freedom

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Sephy, d'you ever dream of just … escaping? Hopping on the first boat or plane you come across and just letting it take you away.' There

You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand in the door, you're blocking the traffic

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to relinquish war. - Longinus Sdapeze

They will always allow it. It's only men who need ownership. The gods allow more freedom.

Der Mensch, der liebt, weil er durch die Wahrheit Gottes frei gemacht ist, ist der revolutionärste Mensch auf Erden.

Wirkliche Wahrheit unterscheidet sich von jeder phrasenhaften Wahrhaftigkeit dadurch, daß sie etwas ganz Bestimmtes will, daß etwas geschieht – nämlich daß sie den Menschen löst, frei macht.

Frei sein heißt nichts anderes, als in der Liebe sein. Und in der Liebe sein heißt nichts anderes, als in der Wahrheit Gottes sein.

Gott will nicht, daß ich den Andern nach dem Bilde forme, das mir gut erscheint, also nach meinem eigenen Bilde, sondern in seiner Freiheit von mir hat Gott den Andern zu seinem Ebenbild gemacht.

The age of democratic revolutions inaugurated by the American revolution made the existence of slavery and servile labor questionable for the first time in western history

We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.

I hate to travel with stuff.