Quotes About Freedom

I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal

We have weeks, or months, or even years if need be. Keep in mind that Mr. McMurphy is committed. The length of time he spends in this hospital is entirely up to us. Now, if there is nothing else…

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum

In order to become wealthy you have to stop working just to pay your expenses

various types of meditation often aim for different transpersonal realms. Some aim for psychic experiences, some for the deity mysticism of the subtle realm, some for the formlessness and Freedom of the causal Witness, and some for nondual Unity or One Taste

Because the amazing fact is that truth alone will not set you free. Truthfulness will set you free.

In understandably wishing to increase freedom and liberty, it paradoxically left massive road kill everywhere on the highway to rational heaven.

You have to know that there actually is a transcendental something, if you are going to free anybody from anything—if there is no beyond-the-given, there is no freedom from the given, and liberation is futile.

Not in Emptiness, but as Emptiness, I am released from the fate of a never-ending addition of parts, and I stand free as the Source and Suchness of the glorious display. I taste the sky and swallow whole the Kosmos, and nothing is added to me; I disappear in a million forms and nothing is subtracted; I rise as the sun to greet my own day, and nothing moves at all.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.