Quotes About Freedom

Der Kritisch-Aufgeklärte wird zunächst felsenfest behaupten, es gäbe keine Zensur in einer Demokratie, und wenn man ihm dann Beispiele nennt, wird er ungerührt erklären, dass es gut sei, wenn gewisse Tatsachen und Ansichten nicht veröffentlicht würden.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.

To reign in life is to know that you are right with God. It is to know that God is not mad at you but mad about you. It is to know that He is happy with you, approving of you, and pleased with you. It is to know that His love is toward you constantly and His favor continually upon you. To reign in life is to live totally free from crippling guilt and condemnation with an awareness that your right standing before God can never change!4

This was something already signaled for Fackenheim by Schelling's treatment of radical evil in Of Human Freedom. See An Epitaph for German Judaism,

You not trapped girl. Not unless you nailed to the floor.

People will say with a straight face that having one choice for dear leader is tyranny – but having two is freedom.

The black flag comes in many colors.

through the centuries men have formed concepts designed to check and limit the exercise of State rule; and, one after another, the State, using its intellectual allies, has been able to transform these concepts into intellectual rubber stamps of legitimacy and virtue to attach to its decrees and actions.

As cynic H. L. Mencken once pointed out, "The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the immediate pressures and limitations of daily life.

The less we think about what others might be considering or thinking about us, the more likely we can live the story that our own souls came here to unfold and unveil to the world.

What's the matter with us anyhow? If America ever loses confidence in herself, she will retain the confidence of no one, and she will lose her chance to be free, because the fearful are never free. —ADLAI STEVENSON, 1954

Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world!

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

And that is, if you want innovation, tell me where you want to go, but don't tell me how I must get there.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

Liberty is the object of the Republic. Liberty needs virtue. Virtue among the people is impossible without religion.

Suddenly, out of the mist came a parachute with a fresh Hershey chocolate bar from America. It took me a week to eat that candy bar. I hid it day and night. The chocolate was wonderful, but it wasn't the chocolate that was most important. What it meant was that someone in America cared. That parachute was something more important than candy. It represented hope. Hope that someday we would be free. Without hope the soul dies.

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.