Even though he’d been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he’d lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.

Jesus says, “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.” He says, “The first shall be last and the last shall be first,” and infuriating things like “if you seek to find your life...

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.

i am longer living my life according to another’s opinion. If you hurt me expect to be forgiven and forgotten, if you show me apart of your ego; I’ll feed it soul as I walk...

It’s a picking away at our freedom and privacy, legislature by legislature, law by law, with the ultimate goal of overturning Roe v. Wade.

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.

He wants to enslave you.”I shudder at the thought of being free.

Being on CMT gives us the freedom to acknowledge that, because our audience is by and large not a cynical audience.

Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can’t move, can’t dream, can’t...

You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free. You can do it right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You...

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

We want to allow freedom of speech as far as possible but we can’t allow that sort of thing.

She is like a cat in the darkAnd then she is the darknessShe rules her life like a fine skylarkAnd when the sky is starlessAll your life you’ve never seen a womanTaken by the windWould...

Flat ubi vult

that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d just spend a little time practicing? Why should that...

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others...

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl,...

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Freedom for freedoms sake.”~R. Alan Woods [2006]

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right...

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Freedom is not an individual effort.Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.

Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit.The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

Venerable to me is the hard hand; crooked & coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal as the Scepter of this Planet. Hardly entreated Brother! For us was thy way so bent, for...

It must be something voluntary, something self induced – like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea...

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society...

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Human rights’ are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of...

They should not let profits take precedence over traditional democratic values such as freedom of speech.

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

That’s for the best. Otherwise they might realize they’re in prison. It can’t be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he...

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

The practice is simple. Whatever you’re doing, do that with total awareness.

Life is like butter – when things cool down it can be reshaped

Our wings may be small, but then again, so are we.