Quotes About Freedom

God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.

America, . . . a place of free expression of everything with everyone, which is made possible through the civil courage characteristic of the American and through the lack of all inhibiting officiousness in personal conversation" (Bonhoeffer, cf. report from 1931).

The hungry person needs bread, the homeless person needs shelter, the one deprived of rights needs justice, the lonely person needs community, the undisciplined one needs order, and the slave needs freedom" (p. 97). Treating human beings as things, commodities, and machines is a special hindrance to receiving Christ

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —

Suffering, in fact, can be helpful in many ways. It spurs your motivation and as many teachings point out, without suffering there would be no determination to be free from samsara. Sadness is an effective antidote to arrogance.

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech and religion. These are the freedoms that, in their original form, American conservatives seek to conserve.

Evil at bottom is the refusal to recognize the reality of others, to refuse to restrain ourselves, so that another does not have room to live and develop freely.

Though actually kids did not need liberating except from normative training. So it was an anti-colonial project of a sort to defend children from the state.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

You've got no time to lose / You are young, and you must be living / Go now, you are forgiven.

I like the idea of being whoever I want to be.

I'm for anyone trying any kind of look. The only barrier is yourself. Do not worry about what other people think. - Angelique Noire

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible--it is a form of immortality

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.

Dobby has no master, Dobby is a free elf.

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ?u ga satreti, moja je li?na stvar.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Do not let your shadow walk you. You are not a slave of the past.

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Don't hate or fear to death because death is the only one who set us free from life's slavery...

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.