7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Electricity is really just organized lightning

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.