Freedom Quotes

A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom,” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Freedom runs faster than a Samoan cop that’s been paid to run. Freedom always run faster.

~ Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away.pg 185

~ Veronica Roth

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.

~ Carlos Castañeda

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did.

~ Italo Calvino

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

~ Lawrence Hill

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

~ Bhagat Singh

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true

~ Renae A. Sauter

He has a way of drawing His loves back to Himself. A psyche separated from the peace (and the freedom) of Christ is liable to entangle itself in all sorts of folly and vanity, or confused witchcraft. On the one side it will preach, 'Empowerment!' But on the other it will scream, 'Oppression!' Yes, you now have the power to be oppressed: because as long as you look to be a victim, you will find yourself to be a victim.

~ Criss Jami

To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.

~ Criss Jami

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

~ C.s. Lewis

Because of the Dharma, my mind was more free in prison than worldly people experience in the best of circumstances.

~ Yangthang Rinpoche

Freedom costs too much

~ Pierce Brown

If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & 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.

~ Thomas Jefferson

What happens when I love, you ask, does the world start making sense? No, my dear, it does not. But it won’t matter to you then.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permission may diminish it. It does not follow, as these people would have us believe, that a man is more free where there is least law and more restricted where there is most law.

~ H.g. Wells

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him; the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage. Etsuko however, had in her heart not the slightest interest in these matters. Her soul knew nothing but affirmation.

~ Yukio Mishima

You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. I looked back up at the sky, blinking at the lustrous beauty of the ascending and departing demons. They formed an alphabet I was beginning to learn to read. They were fire in the sky.

~ Graham Joyce

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

~ Michael Oakeshott

I didn’t know I was in a prison until I was told I could go no further than where I am. It was in that moment that I determined to free myself. I am becoming much greater than I am today. I need the belief to grow.

~ Lashawnda Jones

I don't think I'm entirely on board with the 'do what you truly want to do' school of thought. Not without a little more nuance. There has to be an anchor in the wide-open space. Otherwise, 'doing what you truly want' isn't an authentic attempt at exploration -- it's just another hyper-individualistic credo masquerading as something grand. I mean we're all gung ho about pursuing personal freedom, but why do we want it? If we never constructively apply it to something beyond ourselves, and if it doesn't deepen our sense of connection and humanity, then what's the point?

~ Clara Bensen

The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.

~ Jeffrey Fry

There were no parents holding them back, no younger siblings needing to be cared for, no one telling them they were going to burn in hell, and no one telling them they had an illness. There were no limits, no responsibilities, no religion, and no misunderstandings. In that moment, there was just the music vibrating through their bodies. The worst part was knowing the music and the moment would eventually end.

~ Chris Colfer

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

~ Benazir Bhutto

Free elections don't always result in fair elections.

~ Dashanne Stokes

We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.

~ Becky Albertalli

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

~ Paulo Coelho

But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.

~ Jessica Sorensen

Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived intersubjectively distinguishes itself from the arbitrary freedom of the isolated individual. No one is free until we are all free.

~ Jürgen Habermas

There is a word we should be using towards government officials whenever they deny our individual rights: No. Being just a word, it isn't a strong weapon. But it is the intellectual wellspring from which all other weapons flow.

~ Mike Klepper

Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.

~ Michael D. O'brien

You're a free man, act like it.

~ Mike Klepper

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You've been taught to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

~ Mike Klepper

When an animal is looking for something that increases its chances of survival and reproduction (e.g. food, partners or social status), the brain produces sensations of alertness and excitement, which drive the animal to make even greater efforts because they are so very agreeable. In a famous experiment scientists connected electrodes to the brains of several rats, enabling the animals to create sensations of excitement simply by pressing a pedal. When the rats were given a choice between tasty food and pressing the pedal, they preferred the pedal (much like kids preferring to play video games rather than come down to dinner). The rats pressed the pedal again and again, until they collapsed from hunger and exhaustion

~ Yuval Noah Harari