Quotes About Freedom

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

She soars on her own wings.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?