7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free.

War represents the seemingly endless conflict between governments seeking power and control versus individual persons seeking freedom and liberty.

Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas.

As we let go of our need to control, we find freedom.

Censorship is fear and Free Speech is bravery. The end.

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power,Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;Of changing and of shifting shape,Of snares eluded, broken traps,The prison opening, the chain that snaps.

College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and dread, I'd realized that was the wrong reason to go to college. That the potential for those things had been inside of me all along, only I'd never realized because I hadn't believed myself strong enough to break free without an intermediary.

There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free.