Quotes About Freedom

e não existe um só pilar de granito a impedir-me de partir.

Nobody has the power to imprison your mind, dictate your emotions, or enslave your soul - unless you let them.

There was no need for a term like 'magical thinking' in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.

You are born of spirit. You cannot become more spiritual. Set your inner spiritual being free.

The priest says that Jesus erred in his original insistence that man must be free to choose whether to follow God or Satan; what men want, the priest says, is not freedom but bread. They want comfort, security, and the certainty of being saved if they follow the dictates of the Church.

When it does come they will taste for the first time the real meaning of freedom.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I'm always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

For to love persons is to have died to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it. You're not controlled by it; you're not enslaved by it. That's the difference.

If you ever allow yourself to see it will be the death of you. And that is why love is so terrifying, for to love is to see and to see is to die. But it is the most delightful exhilarating experience in the whole world. For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.

Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.

Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.