Quotes on Freedom

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.