Quotes About Freedom

When the sensation that I am in control of my life and must make it happen ends, then life is simply lived and relaxation takes place. There is a sense of ease with whatever is the case and an end to grasping for what might be.

At death there is only liberation. It is just more chic to see liberation when you are alive." Max Furlaud in a private conversation

The bad news is that you're in free fall and there's nothing to hold on to. The good news is that there's no ground to hit.

You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more of that. Please.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Freedom is only given to those who can handle the consequences that come with it

choice is our superhuman power. It allows us to change everything all at once,

Contract freedom quickly revealed itself as a delusion when those negotiating contracts were so incommensurate in wealth and power.

Limitation makes for power. The strength of the genie comes of his being confined in a bottle.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

The tyrant of Syracuse once went to the slavephilosopher Epictetus and told him, "I'll pay the ransom for you and you will be liberated " Epictetus replied, "Why do you care about me? Free yourself." "But I am a king," said the amazed tyrant. "This I contest," was the answer of the philosopher. "He who masters his passions is a king even while in chains. He who is ruled by his passions is a slave even while sitting on a throne.

In the free world, it is customary during a strike for men to picket the entrance to a factory. They often use violence to prevent from entering any workers who choose not to join their actions. Likewise we Christians must decide to boycott hell, picketing the entrance with determination.

In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one "who has become an instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of ­martyrdom.

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow", he said. "Don't, then. Stay home." "No. I guess I've got to go.

she had always been ready to take off the minute she happened to feel like it ("Don't talk to me that way, Frank, or I'm leaving. I mean it") or the minute anything went wrong.

in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations

He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.