Quotes About Freedom

neurosis happens when you are trapped by your memories into perpetuating your limitations.

one's deepest sense of freedom is coincident with an embrace of the God who is the ground of one's being.

Conan, grim, blood-stained, naked but for a loin-cloth, shackles on his mighty limbs, his blue eyes blazing beneath the tangled black mane which fell over his low broad forehead.

You black dog!" A red mist of fury swept across Conan's eyes. "Were I free I'd give you a broken back!

You can not prove that Fascism is anything but a sordid, retrogressive despotism, which crushes the individual liberty and strangles the intellectual life of every country it inflicts with its slimy presence … and Fascism is nothing but a new fad-name for industrial tyranny … the Fascist movement in America is nothing but a move on the part of the money-barons to establish themselves more firmly than ever, to stamp out the last vestige of freedom in the people beneath them

Stand up naked in the storm! Shake back your mane and face the thunders and the giant winds that roar between the worlds. Face the rush of events, the gigantic Truths, the dizzying realities. Be one with the tempests, the roaring ocean, and the swirling constellations. A Thunder of Trumpets

Mingle my dust with the burning brand, Scatter it free to the sky Fling it wide on the ocean's sand, From peaks where the vultures fly.

This war is not about slavery.

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

If the Germans come', Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, 'we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile- family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head- all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government that does not heed the demands of its people.

We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!

What role have I left for religion? None. And I have left none because the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ leaves none. Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.

Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Well, if you find yourself living by something that can't forgive ... then you die to it and look around for something that can.

Si sé que no tengo «algo», no tengo que poseerlo. Y si no poseo nada, puedo tenerlo «todo». Enseguida, otro pensamiento sacudió al Caballero: ?Saber que no poseo nada significa no tener nada que defender... y saber que no sé nada significa que no tengo que demostrar nada. ¿Estoy en lo cierto?

Hemos cerrado Al Watan por el reportaje sobre el presidente —me comunicó—. El redactor fue detenido por otra cosa… sí, está detenido.» Lo están interrogando. También hemos cerrado Al Istiqlal. Han estado implicados en un delito de desinformación.»

The abolitionists set it up, the defeat of the Confederacy made it imperative. It was freely admitted that it "confers on Congress the power to invade any state to enforce the freedom of the African in war or peace.