Quotes on Freedom

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.