Freedom Quotes

Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery.

~ Amit Kalantri

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom, it was the lack of desiring freedom.

~ Patricia Briggs

Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.

~ Kenneth Patchen

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.

~ Fernando Pessoa

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

~ Nenia Campbell

You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

~ Terry Pratchett

A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain of rubies up, red and gold in the flickering candlelight. “No shackles for us,” he said, “no matter how rich.

~ Susanna Fraser

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

~ Marvin Harris

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery, and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

~ Kathryn Lindskoog

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

~ Idries Shah

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

~ Courtney M. Privett

Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?

~ Lionel Suggs

Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information.

~ Linda Deir

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

~ V.s. Naipaul

Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.

~ Steve Maraboli

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

~ Os Guinness

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

~ L.m. Browning

Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?

~ Bryant Mcgill

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

~ J. Horace Mcfarland

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance.

~ Narissa Doumani

You're not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.

~ Dianna Hardy

We can’t remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.

~ Maajid Nawaz

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

To be moral, an act must be free.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

~ Émile Zola

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

~ Joshua Emmet

What would you rather have, peace or freedom?

~ Eric Kripke

I smiled and rolled onto my side, bringing my arms around her. She wiggled against me, letting me spoon her, and I swept some sweaty hair away from her neck to kiss beneath her ear. “How do you like your new tattoo?”“I love it. It makes me want to be a bird.”“You already are a bird.”“I don’t get to fly.”“You fly all the time. Haven’t you noticed?

~ Rachael Wade

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

~ Ilona Mialik

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

~ Veronica Roth

The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day...

~ C. Joybell C.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

~ Rosario Castellanos

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

~ Don Delillo

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

~ Anne Holm

Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.

~ Georg Büchner