Quotes About Freedom

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

The necessity of creation is the sovereign power of choice

I am not a prisoner to be locked up in people's ideologies, I am not a criminal to be locked up in your mind, I am a free spirit and I make no apologies for it

Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Nothing can enslaved us, if we free in our minds.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).