Quotes About Freedom

was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.

This scenario, after all, was what he had always yearned for: immense popularity in a republican country, with no responsibility to go with

In a world where liberty is in very short supply, there are worse heroes than a man who never stopped worshiping freedom.

To practical people, Lafayette appeared not as the rallying point of the liberals, but as the Quixote of liberty

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Partir, un rêve d'exilé permanent.

La poésie est l'arme de la révolte.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

kad?na dara?ac?na ç?kma hakk? tan?n?yor; öyleyse kürsüye ç?kma hakk? da olmal?d?r.

Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

mientras respira el tirano, la libertad se asfixia".

We should remember that by being well integrated with any matter or thing, we will naturally come to be liberated from our attachment to them.

because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars

Should I leave this burning house Of ceaseless thought And taste the pure rain's Single truth Falling upon my skin?

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.