The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this...

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Its just a matter of time, a positive mentality and a freedom; you will find yourself enjoying in your own world.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread.

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or...

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

People and their values are almost infinitely diverse, and people will never agree on many elements of social arrangements that might be subjected to uniform rules of governance. Hence, the greater the scope of strictly...

Forgiving practice is like peeling an onion, you have to do over and over again many times to achieve freedom… Each time we visualize the person in front of us and forgive, we peel off...

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and...

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.

I may wish to return to my home in England, and I stand in New York, but ever since I was born I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have...

The measure of man’s ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also...

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation’s promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

In the closing of this chapter, Lutzer describes the choice of forgiveness in more detail: ‘Without both honesty andforgiveness, there can be no freedom from the fits of rage.’What happens through the years when such...

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

Women are walking around on the streets. From her calf and the hem of her skirt to her hip, from her hair to the high heels on her feet, a young woman is freedom. Especially...

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

If it gathers dust, give it away …

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don’t oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions”. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela…

Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief...

A Salute to Freedom

I’d rather be miserable and free than happy and caged.

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought...

With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as people inhabiting this particular land mass, have freedom, the for the rest of...

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

If flip flops were oppressive, I wouldn’t wear any. I’d go around showing of my bare feet of freedom. And I’d tell everyone that freedom causes blisters.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries...

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos – not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

I can still only see a dragonfly, its wings as thin and light as silk and its body the color of rainbow. But on the wings of this dragonfly I take off and fly, for...

Stop – Unplug – Escape – Enjoy.’ This is the message of the Priory, and the key to enjoying a peaceful and rewarding life.

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance...

No matter what they say, we aren’t free if we can’t make our own choices.

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and...

All I want is’ – and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame – ‘to retain my freedom.’I should myself have thought,’ said Jacques, ‘that freedom consisted in...

You are either free or not free