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Quotes About Freedom

What they did is not "right," just as it is not "right" to send children up against police dogs. But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside. David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Our liberties are imperiled by overly competent beaurocrats.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Her idea was that you should be whatever you want to be, including being a blonde.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
My great-great-great-grandmother was bought at Alligator Pond.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.
~ Malcolm Lowry
His mind was clear. Physically he seemed better too. It was as if, out of an ultimate contamination he had derived strength. He felt free to devour what remained of his life in peace.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Christendom has also retreated from freedom. In the much talk today about human rights, we forget that our human rights are derived from the Christian faith. In Christian terms every single human being, whoever he or she may be, sick or well, clever or foolish, beautiful or ugly, every single human being is loved of his Creator, who has, as the Gospels tell us, counted the hairs of his head.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
~ Malcolm X
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
~ Malcolm X
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
~ Malcolm X
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
~ Malcolm X
By any means necessary.
~ Malcolm X
They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
~ Malcolm X
Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.
~ Frederick Lenz
Man is an end in himself.
~ Ayn Rand
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
You are always freed by your lucid knowledge and acceptance of your tasks.
~ Auliq Ice
It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.
~ Auliq Ice
The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.
~ Israelmore Ayivor