I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the...

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la...

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

I don’t believe in Borders I go wherever it’s green

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Freedom is more than just a willingness to live; it is a force that binds us all. Being truly free is seeing America as our “heart and home.” Uniting around a common good will help...

Today I will masterbate!Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

It is an old and wise caution, that when our neighbor’s house is on fire, we ought to take care of our own. For tho’, blessed be God, I live in a government where liberty...

Azadlığı istəmirəm zərrə-zərrə, qram-qram,Qolumdakı zəncirləri qıram gərəkQIRAM! QIRAM!Azadlığı istəmirəm bir həb kimi, dərman kimi,İstəyirəm SƏMA kimi!GÜNƏŞ kimi! CAHAN kimi!Çəkil,Çəkil, ey qəsbkar!Mən bu əsrin gur səsiyəm;Gərək deyil sısqa bulaq!Mən ümmanlar təşnəsiyəm!

When you realize that the feeling you have — is — the response you choose, you are free in that moment.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing

welfare.” Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. (An example and symbol of this attitude is...

You fly all the time. Haven’t you noticed?

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

To The Veterans of the United States of AmericaThank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus...

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that...

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

I had to think of my mom and brother. Of my freedom. And then when … when you became more important than all of those things put together, it was too late. – pg. 171

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say ‘Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you...

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

If traveling was free, you’d never see me again.

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the ‘itch,’ as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster...

Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people’s fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and...

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion....

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement...

Forgiveness truly brings freedom. If we don’t forgive, bitterness and anger build to the point where not only are we hurting ourselves, but in the process can hurt others around us.

learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm...

Aref knelt, reached into his pocket and produced an implement made from a small stick which he called his miswak, the use of which he silently illustrated before handing her his spare. He also gave...

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art....

The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of...

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Happy Independence Day! Let Freedom Stream!!!

It’s dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom’s not an idea, it’s a passion! If you haven’t got it you fight like a fish out of...

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage....

…we’re constantly waking up to what we’re about, what we’re really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that’s painful. But there’s no possibility of freedom without this pain.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

No hay lugar para el místico que soy dentro del ateo que represento. Y no es problema de Dios -hace tiempo abandoné a Dios-; es conflicto de identidad, de realidad.

Now I’m dreaming, will I ever find you now?I walk in circles but I’ll never figure outWhat I mean to you, do I belongI try to fight this but I know I’m not that strongAnd...

It didn’t seem possible, but they’ve found a way to improve. They have so much more freedom with the ball, and they still make it tough on teams with their defense.

A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.