7,738 Quotes About Freedom

A spectacle of light illuminates a room full of darkness.

Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which the more one has, the less another can enjoy. Freedom considered as a matter of individual self-determination or self-sovereignty is reduced to a solipsistic phenomenon. Rather, as a world-building practice, freedom is a social--and hence necessarily political--endeavor.

There is no idea bigger, more critical or more urgent than ending our endless wars.

Following the rules is like walking on a garden pavement. Rebelling against them is like deliberately avoiding the pavement; the pavement still remains in your head and dictates your path.

What we need is awareness, we can't get careless.You say, What is this?My beloved, let's get down to business.Mental self defensive fitness.Yo, bum rush the show.You gotta fight for what you knowto make everybody see,in order to fight the powers that be.FIGHT THE POWER- Lyrics, Public Enemy

When liberty, reason and equality are threatened in one nation, it's a threat to the very fabric of civilization.

Freedom is not the purpose, it's the path.

Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.

Freedom is overrated. You can be completely free and starving in an igloo in Antarctica. Business is what makes people’s lives better, not democracy. The world is filled with dysfunctional democracies, paralyzed by idiots with votes.