Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Nader

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Rajneesh

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

Rajneesh

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

Sheena Iyengar

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish

Septima Poinsette Clark

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

Soleil Moon Frye

I used to be a free spirit.

Simon Wiesenthal

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

Simon Wiesenthal

There is no freedom without justice.

Rajneesh

Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

Rajneesh

Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when it blooms, and a man is fulfilled when he releases the fragrance of buddhahood, when he becomes luminous; then he comes to know who he is. In knowing that, all is known. In knowing that, God is known. In knowing that, truth is achieved - you become the truth, and truth liberates. Truth is freedom.

Rajneesh

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

Rajneesh

Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.

Rajneesh

`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting, not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.

Rajneesh

Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.

Rajneesh

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.

Rajneesh

Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive. And the only way to be more alive is to live dangerously, is to risk, is to go on an adventure. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core.

Rajneesh

Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

Mercedes Lackey

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

John Milton

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

John Milton

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

John Milton

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

John Milton

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Norman Cousins

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Nina Simone

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Nina Simone

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Mike Tyson

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Neil Gaiman

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

John Muir

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.

John W. Gardner

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John Steinbeck

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

John Steinbeck

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.