Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Sharon Creech

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Neil Peart

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Sun Ra

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Stuart Chase

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Robert Browning

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it, we have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

Samuel Adams

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave....

T. Harv Eker

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

T. Harv Eker

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

Karl Kraus

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Julius Nyerere

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Joyce Cary

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Oswald Spengler

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

Ossie Davis

It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

June Jordan

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

June Jordan

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...

Joyce Meyer

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Moshe Dayan

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Pearl S. Buck

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Ramana Maharshi

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Laurie Anderson

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

L. Ron Hubbard

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.