There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.

The world now follows a zoo culture where in the weaker ones are caged and the stronger ones watch playfully –

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence,...

Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by...

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh...

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment …...

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and...

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, – and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

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...