7,738 Quotes About Freedom

May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.

It's not painful anymore. My heart doesn't bled just like before. I am now free from this cold chain, but a hint of sadness in me still remains.

Freedom," we repeated to ourselves, and yet we could not grasp it. We had said this word so often during all the years we dreamed about it, that it had lost its meaning. Its reality did not penetrate into our consciousness; we could not grasp the fact that freedom was ours.

You buy a personal jet. It's good. But soon you realize that it has a huge maintenance cost. Now you can't decide whether to keep it or sell it. This is Maya. Everything in Maya has huge maintenance cost.

Insofar as man is wise or good, his ‘character’ is acquired chiefly by posing as better than he is, until a part of his pretense becomes a habit.

There comes a time in every bird's life, when it must stop revisiting the other birds in cages, stop trying to break open their locks. A bird in the sky must one day realize, that many birds have chosen their own cages, and that the freedom to choose captivity, is also a freedom that needs to be granted.

If you are in a prison, either break out of it at all costs or accept it without complaints. Both options need immense strength and both will set you free. But if you are just sitting and complaining about it, you are reinforcing it.

Sometimes limits are their own form of freedom.

They spend their weeks waiting for Work to go put on its Sunday clothes.