Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Aurelius

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marc Chagall

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Thomas a Kempis

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Sharon Creech

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Neil Peart

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

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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.

Joseph Cook

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 de Maistre

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Langston Hughes

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

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Pema Chodron

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Pema Chodron

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Pema Chodron

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Rabindranath Tagore

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Joss Whedon

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me

Joss Whedon

You can't take the sky from me.

Kofi Annan

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Ramana Maharshi

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Laurie Anderson

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

L. Ron Hubbard

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.