Quotes About Freedom

Did you think that your feet had been bound By what gravity brings to the ground? Did you feel you were tricked By the future you picked? Well, come on down

We've got to get in to get out.

An anarchist is not someone who favors chaos but someone who favors the total liberation of the world through the abolition of capitalism, government, and all other forms of oppressive authority, to be replaced by any number of other social arrangements, proven or utopian.

With stripes of red, white, and blue, the

He would return again and again to the same themes over the years, with different details and different emphases, but always with the same underlying message: the inherent nobility not so much of man as of FREEDOM, and the implied responsibility - no, the OBLIGATION - for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be. To be different, in Sam's words, IN THE EXTREME.

However, they must also be able to count on respect and freedom from personal judgment.

Thinking ish-ly allowed ideas to flow freely.

No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.

if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.

The general trend in America remains toward pluralism, freedom, and Jefferson's right to "the pursuit of happiness" for each person in his or her own way. We all have a responsibility to see to it that the trend continues; its opposite is the oppression, the stasis, and the homogeneity that Nazism prized.

rights are for the people whom we fear or dislike because they are the people who need them.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

Sometimes I think that's all you need. A good man with a fishing tip, a wave. A woman once in a while. Some work to do that might mean something. A truck that runs, that some faceless bastard two hundred miles away can't turn off. It's not much, but plenty when you don't have any of it.

A road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.

The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over the other side. I don't know if anyone else on the ship saw her. To me, she was a visitation. Not harbinger or annunciation, but a simple reminder of a wold that worked, that was at home with itself and friends with storm.

road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.

The creature gazes into openness with all its eyes.… Free from death. We alone see that: the free creature has its progress always behind it, and God before it, and when it moves, it moves in eternity, as streams do. She

He felt wreathed in the music of language, and as long as he heard it and could write it down, as long as the pulse was in his veins, he didn't care if he lived out of the back of a truck or in some crappy rent-by-the-week for the rest of his life.

Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God's grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty! ~ Karl Barth, God Here and Now

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly.

It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.

Sure you're not going to miss it, Roy?' 'I'll miss the camaraderie, but not the politics. Too much of that, these days. Know what I'm looking forward to most of all?' 'No – what?' 'It's being able to go into a pub and say what I really think, without having to worry that one of my bosses gets to hear about it,