[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The seeds of Islamic fundamentalism is all over Iraqi walls, … He said that six months...

Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their happiness.

The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a...

You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems.

If there’s one observation that rings true in today’s changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the...

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That’s enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she...

A right doesn’t include the material implementation of that right by other men;it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one’s own effort.

People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don’t mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we’re entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class...

Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She sighed, envying Nasim’s freedom. For just like Mahtab’s namesake, as the moonlight was beholden to...

My philosophy is, don’t take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion...

Freedom lies in being bold.

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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.