He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

The most satisfying form of freedom is not a life without responsibilities, but a life where you are free to choose your responsibilities.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason – refuted, or...

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Are you living in the moment?

I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have...

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Are you seeking to be offended?

What is an unconditional state?

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

Hang on. It gets easier, and then it gets okay, and then it feels like freedom.

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?

The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you...

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they...

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his...

Freedom lies in being naked and the courage to be ‘yourself’ in front of the audience.

[For Spade, the freedom to do edgier material than the networks would allow clinched the deal.] If I’m going to do a show like this, … this is the best place to do it.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn’t realize what freedom is, is one truly free.

Mankind were intended to be happy… that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger...

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough.

The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam,...

It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

We struggle for freedom every day of our lives. From our founding fathers to the Civil War through the suffrage movement, the American civil rights movement and today with the Patriot Act. Frankly, it’s a...

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house,...

There is no method of self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result – and that is what we all want. We follow authority – if not that of a person,...

There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the planet from its axis. Meanwhile, my heart does not soar for the riches you set...

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Charity is today a ‘political charity.’. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to...

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: “I...

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Nothing could be more fearful than losing one’s freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memory...

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower....

One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.

Those things we stuff, try so hard to ignore, they are the very things begging for release — the things that hold the promise of hope, the flame of freedom.

Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold,When all is toldWe cannot beg for pardon.Our freedom as free lancesAdvances towards its end;The earth...

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.

As she’d walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she’d yearned for every night.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.