That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t’ unloose; smooth every passionThat in the...

But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freedom, and dying is a gradual denial of freedom. Consciousness first weakens and then disappears. The...

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have...

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there...

Freedom isn’t the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.

Relief is a great feeling.It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about...

Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw...

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

It’s important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this...

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

I’ll never flourish with your incessant interference. I need some freedom.

Car il n’y a pour l’homme demeuré libre, de souci plus constant, plus cuisant que de chercher un être devant qui s’incliner.

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the...

I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future,...

The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.

Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away.”I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. “Gets away from what, though?””From...

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

The most important freedom is the freedom to be all you’re destined to be

How wonderful it must be, I thought, to be able to just spread your wings whenever you like without someone following you around trying to swat you out of the sky.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my...

At some point, one asks, “Toward what end is my life lived?” A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty...

We smoked fat cigars by the campfire and they tasted like wood and ash. The inhale and exhale was exciting. Blowing smoke rings in the calm forest air was followed by a deep swallow of...

What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among the English that if liberty, equality, and justice were ever to...

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is,...

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone...

Der Präventionsstaat muss […] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Lights,” I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant.

Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice.

For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and on the ground like leaves in May and November; and I have done...

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home.

Wir sind das Volk!”Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die...

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

If you’ve been exiled, why don’t you send me word of yourself? People do send word. Have you stopped loving me? No, for some reason I don’t believe that. It means you were exiled and...

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.