Quotes About Freedom

Do whatever you want with this dedication, but don't— don't— use it on your eyebrows.

At the very back she found a cupboard. Opening it, she saw a plaque to suffragette Emily Davison. Apparently, she had slept there overnight so that she could give her place of residence as the House of Commons on the census of 1911, seven years before women were given the vote. Emily Davison, she could not help but feel, would not have approved of Robin's choice to place a failing marriage above freedom to work.

Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?

You can only carry a weight and use your hands, if you strap the weight to your back. Marry, and you get the use of your hands back. Don't marry, and you'll never have your hands free for anything else.

of waiting for the soulmate who never arrived, of craving both freedom and love.

But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people I met in the bin, I think personal choice has very little to do with it.

Be not dishearten'd—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, "Over the Carnage Rose a Prophetic Voice

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.

When the world is civilized, no wife will become a mother against her will. Man will then know that to enslave another is to imprison himself.

My object is to drive fear out of the world. Fear is the jailer of the mind. Christianity, superstition—that is to say, the supernatural—makes every brain a prison and every soul a convict

Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of rebellious delight, hobbies that are no more than personalized forms of work. This suggests that one of the hidden desires of humanity, provoked by the inward clamor of unused potentialities, is the dream of work in freedom.

For time, which can extend and magnify you, cannot liberate you from the confines of your skin or alter nature from its enduring shape.

Laughable error and profound discovery are born of the same freedom.

Free states characteristically attempt to restrain aggressive tyrannies through rational negotiation. Aggressive tyrannies understand the essential absurdity of such negation, but nonetheless participate in it with enthusiasm, knowing that it will camouflage their intentions and win them time. Negotiating with wronged people, one turns the subject of conversation from the correction of past wrongs to the prevention of future wrongs.

The strong are free to trust, the weak constrained to.

The fact is that antihierarchical, egalitarian sentiments were on the rise in political movements, whose tendencies were, therefore, towards collectivism and centralization, with a concomitant decline in the freedoms of business organizations, private associations, families, and individuals. We

Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

Nelson Mandela is an iconic figure throughout the world. A gifted Statesman,