Freedom Quotes
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I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.
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To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Creativity is the mystery of freedom.
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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
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Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
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“Freedom has its risks. Suppression of freedom, I believe, is a sure prescription for disaster.”
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While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.
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The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.
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"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
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I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?
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I don't particularly care to know the names of the people in the Freedom Caucus.
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We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.
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Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
