Freedom Quotes

Birds never sing in caves.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren’t in love.

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.