7,738 Quotes About Freedom

The fact is, we need prisons that are more like schools, and schools that are less like prisons. But for this to happen, the teachers also need freedom.

Only when one is free to choose, one can be responsible for one’s actions.

One free act is often enough to dispel a lifetime of conditioning.

If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

I choose beauty over bitterness I choose discovery over doubt I choose freedom over fear I choose grace over grief I choose peace over panic I choose surrender over suffering I choose trust over terror I choose wisdom over warefare I choose life, light and love

Sometimes we have to push people aside, distance ourselves from others to remain happy. There are people that will try to place you in the darkness they live in, so there not alone. Their objectives so simple, as transparent as the life they live. You’ll walk pass them without a care, smiling when it’s time to leave.

There will always be some delay between the first neuropsychological events that kindle my next conscious thought and the thought itself. And even if they weren't — even if all mental states were truly coincident with their underlying brain states — I cannot decide what I will next think or intend until a thought or intention arises. What will my next mental state be? I do not know — it just happens. Where is the freedom in that?

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.