Freedom Quotes III

FREEDOM QUOTES III

quotations about freedom

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

TAD WILLIAMS

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Blood of Others

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The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

WILHELM REICH

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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It is like living among snow-capped peaks with clouds wrapped around them and the sun and moon starkly shining over them... Aloneness becomes their companion, their spiritual consort, part of their being. Wherever they go they are alone, whatever they do they are alone. Whether they relate socially with friends or meditate alone ... aloneness is there all the time. That aloneness is freedom, fundamental freedom.

CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

The Myth of Freedom

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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

The Watch on the Rhine

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True freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Stanzas on Freedom"

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Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

WALT DISNEY

radio address, Mar. 1, 1941

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

JAMES MADISON

speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution, Jun. 6, 1788

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This is my right
A right given by God
To live a free life
To live in freedom

PAUL MCCARTNEY

"Freedom"

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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

MICHEL AOUN

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations

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For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Freedom

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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

EMIL CIORAN

History & Utopia

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Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

NELSON MANDELA

Long Walk to Freedom

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Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. Completely to empty the whole content of the mind--that is real freedom. Freedom is not mere revolt from circumstances, which again breeds other circumstances, other environmental influences, which enslave the mind. We are talking about a freedom that comes naturally, easily, unasked for, when the mind is capable of functioning at its highest level.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

On Freedom

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Out of My Later Years

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Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.

PETER CAREY

Parrot and Olivier in America

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.