7,738 Quotes About Freedom

So here is that line from the American Declaration of Independence translated into biological terms:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. And such was the carnage that he never spoke of it right up to his dying day. Therefore, we might consider that it was the sacrifices that he witnessed, and the pain of comrades lost that he carried to his own grave that are but a tiny part of the inestimable price paid for the liberties that we abuse.

It’s not enough to have freedom, one must know how to practice that freedom.

Earthly love and heavenly love irreconcilably oppose each other ... No mediation exists between the law of the public sphere and the willingness to be without restraint; between the two spheres there is nothing - to be sure, the positive nothing, the nothing of freedom.

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

Too religious sometimes make you truly judgmental

Do not identify with symbols, slogans, or statues because they can be destroyed and manipulated. Place your faith in freedom and decency because those ideals are eternal and cannot ever be taken from you.

That would make it easy for Amara not having a choice was always easy. It was always safer. However bad things were, you kept your head down and did as you were told in order to avoid worse. The world always want to people like her to believe those lies. You were always safe as long as you were at someone else's whim. Amara's eyes met Cilla's, dark and beaten and haunted. Not having a choice was the worst thing in the world.