Quotes about Freedom
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
- DH Lawrence
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
- Albert Einstein
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
- Wayne Dyer
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.
- Max Lucado
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
- Cicero
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
- Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
- Margaret Atwood
Life offers us this great gift of self-organization, how we can be held in the basin of shared meaning and, within that, exercise individual freedom. It is such a shame to waste it on fear and doubt. Or to seek to contain and control it.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
- Timothy Keller