Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

Wenn wir uns der Verfolgung des freien Geistes während der Diktatur besinnen, werden wir die Freiheit jedes Gedankens und jeder Kritik schützen, so sehr sie sich auch gegen uns selbst richten mag.”[Ansprache am 8. Mai...

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

When knowledge and education reach you, you have an whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I shall now call myself;I shall now call.In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,I shall love myself and love myself.I shall be my own quest,My absolute wealth.The journey of light supreme will commenceIn the...

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don’t know how to face it.

There’s a funny thing about light and darkness–like hope, you can never blot out either one completely. They always exist, side by side, bright light making shadows darker, darkness making the light more beautiful, a...

Il rischio di perdere quella ragazza per sempre, aveva scalfitoquella dura corazza dal suo cuore; forse stava nascendo qualcosadi nuovo nella natura dei draghi, perché lui si sentiva dipendereda Eleonora. Aveva perso la propria libertà.«Ma...

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

The answer to 1984 is 1776

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of...

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn’t exclusive to the attachments the...

The last glow of sundown dims away. Stars appear in the east. Night encloses us. The ocean seems to enlarge. When you’re adrift at night, imagination and perception merge. They have to. You can’t see...

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their...

There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If...

It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.

We wouldn’t have to take your rights away if you’d just stop exercising them.

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish,...

The greatest barrier to self-understanding is our fear of knowing the truth within ourselves, but when we do understand ourselves, we greatly enhance what we are capable of.

The last word of the Northmen before their entry in the larger world of Southern culture, their last independent guess at the secret of the Universe, is given in the Twilight of the Gods. As...

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with…. Stop trying to steer the river.

It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give … if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his...

Keep the change,” he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than “Keep the change”?

[F]rom my years of understanding … I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I...

Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

Kein Mensch, der in Furcht oder Sorge oder Chaos lebt, ist frei, aber wer sich von Sorgen, Furcht und Chaos befreit, wird dadurch auch aus der Sklaverei befreit.

Milosevic had a dream of regaining his freedom by getting to Russia. Saddam thinks he can regain power through the insurgency.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

Kaun bata sakta hai yeh mulaqaat pehli yaan Aakhri hai.. Na jaane kitni baar mil chuka hoon tujhse aur kitni baar abhi milna baaki hai…Har daur mein hota hai koi kirdaar mere jaisa.. Na jaane...

These are countries where governments have engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom over the past year,

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their...

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.

As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war’s desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.Then...

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for...

I like seeing little kids in shopping carts. It’s good practice for when they turn 18 & have to spend the rest of their lives in jail cells.

We grew up in a situation where we didn’t know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn’t know what democracy was.

There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.