Quotes about freedom
freedom weight scarlet
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan
freedom joy recipes
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
freedom men ties
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. Pearl S. Buck
freedom giving desire
Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom. Peace Pilgrim
freedom america choices
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov
freedom fate men
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom liberty ifs
If you cannot be free be as free as you can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom men liberty
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom thinking persons
So far as a person thinks; they are free. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom necks slave
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom government editors
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom burden-of-proof carrie
Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves. Shelby Steele
freedom liberty realist
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. Lee Kuan Yew
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. Lady Bird Johnson
freedom loss safety
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Neil McDonald
freedom bees honey-bee
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus Aurelius
freedom soul abstract-painting
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes. Marc Chagall
freedom heart passion
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. Thomas a Kempis
freedom angel men
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom mean feel-good
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom bird cages
A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. Sharon Creech
freedom wind clouds
Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free Neil Peart
freedom humanity independence
No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
freedom liberty four
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four. Joseph Cook
freedom men wicked
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. Joseph de Maistre
freedom people needs
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Langston Hughes
freedom rocks toes
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. Langston Hughes
freedom people criticism
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith
freedom men liberty
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
freedom essence slavery
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. Leo Tolstoy
freedom pain practice
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. Pema Chodron
freedom doors inspire
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. Pema Chodron