Quotes About Freedom

Oftentimes the reason we don't forgive is because what the other person did was wrong. They were clearly at fault. But when you forgive, you're not excusing their behavior. You're not lessening the offense; you're simply getting the poison out of you. You have to forgive so you can be free.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. —John Adams

So I do know this: Whatever you release, you are released from. What you cling to is that which binds you. You are your own liberator.

We are establishing an understanding that the spiritual principles which we learn—the principles of spirit—are our protection, our health, our safety, our security, and our peace. And these principles will bring freedom to every individual on the face of the globe as the world awakens to them.

The song of the Soul is freedom, joy, and eternal bliss; the song of the Soul is love to all mankind; the song of the Soul is you.

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

It was the Cause. In the face of a Great Cause, the individual was always the first to suffer. The Great Cause consumed individuals as a Southern Plains tornado consumed trees. It did not matter that the Cause was in the name of humanity itself—any such mass ideology, even that conducted in the name of individual rights and freedoms, would sacrifice anyone and anything to further its own grand purpose.

A people well informed cannot be enslaved.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

As a child, I learned that books can set you free, an encyclopaedia held over my head, waiting in the dark as he crept into my room.

The approval trap can be crippling. The craving for approval is insatiable. In fact, the more you feed it, the bigger it becomes. And eventually, it can become all-consuming. The trap is the mistaken belief that more of the same will lead to freedom. However, it turns out that what is needed is a complete reversal of the usual strategies rather than more of the same.

Because." He leaned forward, his hand slipping up her back to unerringly trace the scar tissue of the design burned there, now concealed under the robe. "Someone drew you wings a long time ago and you've been trying to decide whether to fly away ever since." <…> "And because when I look at you, I think you're a gift from God.

Someone drew you wings a long time ago and you've been trying to decide whether to fly away ever since.

It's never going to be that way with us. Anything you say "stop" about, I respect. No apologies, no guilt on your part, no feeling like you've disappointed me. I want you to feel comfortable saying it. You want to get out of here now?.

There is nothing more powerful and frightening than choice. It's the field on which courage and love are tested.

Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.

She didn't belong to anyone, though her lovers, temporary though they were, belonged to her for all time.

Det fria samhället bygger på att vi på så många områden som möjligt ersätter huggens och slagens logik med det frivilliga handslagets logik. Att vi inte förbjuder, tvingar och kommenderar, utan att vi frågar, erbjuder och förhandlar.

Steven Pinker dristar sig till och med till att hävda att högre intelligens leder till mer klassiskt liberala attityder, som individualism och frihet framför tradition, auktoritet och kollektivism.

Ljudsko pravo prekida pravo naroda, ljudsko pravo tako?er prekida pravo kulture.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.