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Quotes About Freedom

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.
~ David Malouf
We are free at last to believe in ourselves.
~ David Malouf
Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.
~ David Malouf
Or does not knowing make him free?
~ David Malouf
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
~ James K. Polk
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
~ Ann Voskamp
Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.
~ Royal Robbins
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
~ Thomas Keating
Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
~ R. C. Sproul
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
~ Ramakrishna
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
~ Andy Stanley
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
~ Patrick Henry
As a Muslim woman, I've been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don't answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
~ John F. Kennedy
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
~ J. D. Salinger
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
~ Jacques Maritain
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
~ Roy Moore
I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.
~ Cloris Leachman
The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
~ Medgar Evers
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
~ Paul Tillich
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
~ Joan Rivers