Quotes About Freedom

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.

And what more can God do,' he asks, 'then to take on flesh and suffer every humiliation and every fear and every pain that humanity suffers? What more without destroying human freedom?

I'm not trying to take your freedom. God knows you deserve it after being married to that monster. I don't want to trap you or hold you back or control you." He gently cupped her face. "I only want to love you, honey.

Maybe he should go after her. Maybe he hadn't tried hard enough. Maybe she was missing him as much as he missed her. Finding her would be a challenge, but that had never stopped him before. Surely she'd left a forwarding address with the post office. But no. That's what her psycho, controlling late husband would have done: hunt her down. She needed to be free to make her own choice. And she had.

So the Next time September 17 rolls around, eat a hot dog, watch some fireworks, and celebrate Constitution Day - that fateful date in 1787 when thirty-nine sweaty men dressed in stockings signed their names to the United States Constitution.

Denise Kiernan

or Puritans sailing to America seeking religious freedom.

I hadn't inherited my fate. I didn't need to pass it on to my girls. None of it was inevitable.

GOING NUDE FOR NATURE.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe.

You have the spiritual, legal, and social right to be or not to be

It would be better maybe if we could stop loving the children and their delicate brawls, pelting across the square in tandem, deking from cover to cover in raucous celebration and they are never winded, bemusing us with the rites of our own gone childhood; if only they stopped mattering, the children, it might be possible, now while the square lies stunned by noon.

People are beset with great trouble because they define their lives so narrowly.

The truth is that Robert Johnson wrestled a superb art out of the blues tradition, an art that has appealed to generations of both black and white listeners, an art that is an essential element of the ongoing progression that is the freedom principle in operation. Forget the context, the mysteries, and the lies; those twenty-nine masters represent artistic truth.

We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us that is courageous beyond our human understanding; it yearns to explore beyond the boundaries of our daily life.

Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. —THE DHAMMAPADA

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement ? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

Grace, I suddenly understood, is a gift of freedom, of a full liberation from one's self. It does not ask that anyone or I deny ourselves; in fact, grace becomes a way of moving closer to who one is, but by a route that does not depend on one's will but on the will of God. And it visits one in love. Love liberates in its gentle but powerful force.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.