Quotes About Freedom

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

A society without its dreamers can never be free.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.

Love makes your soul crawl out of it's hiding place

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Ich wünschte, ich könnte so leben, Johanna, die Kinder einfach aufwachsen lassen, dreckig, frei und gleich mit welchen Noten, außer Atem von der Sonne, müde von der Luft.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.