Quotes About Freedom

In a system where 'innocent until proven guilty' is the ultimate maxim, a person who is charged but not yet convicted of a minor crime should not be sent to prison merely because he or she lacks the financial ability to post bail.

The government, once it takes power, nobody takes that away. If it's gained freely, it will be taken back in blood. That's the only way to get away from communism, Marxism. It's proven... you can see it in history.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?

Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

A free man? - There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.

For if I permitted this altar to be violated by force by a strange man, I shall not seem to inhabit a free country.

for if this shall be, and they ratify your words, I no longer know this Athens as free.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

When our oppressor is all-powerful, where shall we fly for justice?

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

I want to live like music sounds.- Ruth

If I could take people out of their heads for a little while, if I could give them a dose of fantasy, that was all that mattered. You can't put a price on escape.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

Without the burdens and problems associated with fame and fortune, Lieh-tzu could live leisurely and be free to do what he liked and go where he wanted. To Lieh-tzu, being an unknown citizen was better than being a person of power and responsibility. In a time when politicians played games of intrigue, Lieh-tzu felt it was better to remain silent and be truthful to oneself.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.