Quotes About Freedom

Some people my age are seduced by this libertarian idea of having very little of anything by way of a role for government. I found that in my personal experience, freedom is secured by good government just as it's threatened by bad government.

In your life, I hope you will never oppress the Weak, that you will oppose Human Bondage in all its guises, that you will bend your Knee to no man.

I will live my life from now on, I will not perform it.

Until that night, the well-fed, respectable whites had convinced themselves that slaves loved being slaves.

That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too.

I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.

Come back to town. Bring your darn ukelele! We don't care anymore!

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.

The Artist's Way

When we disburden ourselves of old unresolved traumas, energy wasted holding the past at bay becomes available for celebrating daily life.

In the words of Shakespeare: "Now (our) my soul hath elbow room.

the survivor learns to "follows his own bliss". He is freer to pursue activities and interests that naturally appeal to him. He evolves into his own sense of style. He may even feel emboldened to coif and dress himself without adherence to the standards of fashion. He may extend this freedom into his home décor. In this vein, I have seen many survivors discover their own aesthetic, as well as an increased appreciation of beauty in general.

I have worked with numerous "well-therapized" people who were relatively free from perfectionism, but still seriously afflicted with the critic's addiction to noticing potential danger. Said another way, I have seen survivors eliminate much of their perfectionist, self-attacking thinking without realizing that the critic was still flooding their minds with fear-inducing thoughts and images.

Holotropic Rebirthing and Reichian therapy employ special breathing techniques to help free stuck emotions.

Any attempt to dictate what thoughts, feelings, and sensations are proper or improper creates a breeding ground for guilt and shame.

When the moral judgment is removed, individuals are able to acknowledge and experience their authentic life energy freely.

This is in direct relationship to nature's pendulum. We also resolve overwhelm through the natural cycles of expansion and contraction. This tells us that no matter how badly we are feeling right now, this contraction will be followed by an expansion toward freedom.

yet we not infrequently find that a purely local treatment relieves the patient from them, especially when the air-douche is used. A feeling of lightness, quiet and freedom takes the place of noise, fullness and oppression.

the search for human freedom—freedom being the choice to be a creator of our own experience and accept the unbearable responsibility that goes with that. Out of this insight grows the idea that perhaps the real task of leadership is to confront people with their freedom. This may be the ultimate act of love that is called for from those who hold power over others.

His old Shaolin mentor, Ralph, had once said, "Some wolves are not born to the pack.