7,738 Quotes About Freedom

When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the "facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revealing the "divine energies" and the "angelic" state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.

Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing, or what it is that you are longing for, but something in you calls out to be aware. You have become parched in the desert of apathy, and thirst for the Bacchic springs forever out of your reach. And while your highest aspects thirst for freedom, so too your basest roots thrust outwards and strangle the hopes—

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?

Where there is love, it is Jesus that will surely triumph.

Never run after money, learn to overcome your desires and live for the purpose you were born to be.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.