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Quotes About Freedom

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
~ Ovid
I was a free man, and I'd survived prison without being arse raped or beaten to a pulp. So how come I felt so f**king sad?
~ Ozzy Osbourne
En flykting, jagad som ett djur fast kungalik. En konung över folk i bur och folk av lik.
~ Par Lagerkvist
De, ismétlem, a valódi irodalmi m?, nem is okvetlenül a remekm?, mint egy élÅ'lény: kimeríthetetlen. És szabad.
~ Peter Esterhazy
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
~ P. T. Barnum
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear! to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates! Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent! This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is a long Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
~ Unknown
The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.
~ Unknown
Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.
~ Unknown
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.
~ Pablo Casals
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.
~ Pablo Neruda
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
~ Pablo Picasso
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
~ Pablo Picasso
le ha dado a la Argentina lo único de lo que puede enorgullecerse: la independencia".
~ Pacho O'Donnell
something about rules—you have to either follow them or break them with gusto.
~ Paco Underhill
The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.
~ Paddy Ashdown
If you could trade out and be, say, Godzilla, wouldn't you jump on it, dear? Couldn't you then forgo your bad haircuts and dour wardrobe and moping ways and begin to have some fun, as Godzilla? What might we have to give you to induce you to become Godzilla and leave us alone? Shall we await your answer?
~ Padgett Powell
Please guide all beings from this swamp of cyclic existence!
~ Unknown
The master replied: Tsogyal, the empty essence of your awareness is not created by anyone. Without causes and conditions, it is originally present. Don't try to change or alter awareness. Let it remain exactly as it is! Thus you will be free from straying and awaken within the state of primordial purity.
~ Unknown
When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart form that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two.
~ Unknown
When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart from that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two.
~ Unknown
Just be who you want to be not what others want to see
~ Unknown
Picking Another Channel "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
~ Pam Grout
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD
~ Pam Grout