Quotes about freed
freedom choices tasks
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses. Thomas Merton
freedom two light
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Carlyle
freedom wind asia
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere. Stanley Baldwin
freedom democracy today
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. Thurgood Marshall
freedom men black-history
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. Thurgood Marshall
freedom democracy opinion
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same. Robert A. Heinlein
freedom mistress matter
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. Robert A. Heinlein
freedom mistress matter
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
freedom office progress
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices. Richard Cobden
freedom self beloved
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison
freedom democracies-have voting-age
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Tom Stoppard
freedom women needs
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe? Thomas Campion
freedom liberty wells
O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? Thomas Bailey Aldrich
freedom men worthy
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. Victor Hugo
freedom kingdoms realizing
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. Vernon Howard
freedom conscious
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. Vernon Howard
freedom numbers walks
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. Vernon Howard
freedom liberty fit
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. Robert Frost
freedom inspiration 4th-of-july
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. Robert Frost
freedom artist government
The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.... Robert Frost
freedom men speech
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press. Robert Frost
freedom leader poetry
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. Robert Frost
freedom lovers divorced
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced. Robert Frost
freedom way-forward democracy
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy. Richard von Weizsaecker
freedom blessing support
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it. Thomas Paine
freedom equality men
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. Thomas Paine
freedom men likes
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Thomas Huxley
freedom men hands
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. Rollo May
freedom ocean moving
Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers. Rumi
freedom preparation fields
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting. Rumi
freedom moving bird
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity. Rumi
freedom dangerous
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting. Rumi
freedom two ties
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. Rumi