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Quotes About Freedom

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
~ Patti Smith
The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.
~ Paul Ryan
What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.
~ Paul Theroux
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't analyze, celebrate it.
~ Rajneesh
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
~ Rajneesh
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.
~ Robert Anthony
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
~ Josiah Royce
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
~ Julia Ward Howe
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
~ Karl Liebknecht
I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
~ KRS-One
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
~ Larry R. Williams
Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?
~ Laura Marling
You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.
~ Linda Woolverton
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
~ Maria Mitchell
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
~ Mary Parker Follett
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
~ Martin Luther
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
~ Graham Greene
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
~ Oliver Gaspirtz