Freedom Quotes

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

It is incongruous that in this atomic age of speed we are shut in and shut out by passports.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

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

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.