7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

The dignity is not in being born as a human, but in relishing the potential of what one can become as a human and this is where each one of us individually express the freedom of being human

If you want to liberate the soul, you first have to liberate the mind.

مقامرة يخسر الرجل فيها حريته .. والمرأة سعادتها : الزواج

إما الحرية و إما الأمان ؟ أبدا ! .. الاثنان معا و إلا .. فلا

La gente tiene miedo, teme por su seguridad y la de los suyos. Y está dispuesta a renunciar a cualquier cosa, incluso a su propia libertad, con tal de que alguien se la garantice.

It would be a marvelous thing if in the process of your listening—unemotionally, not sentimentally—to what is being said … you could really understand sorrow and be totally free of it; because then there would be no self-deception, no illusions, no anxieties, no fear, and the brain could function clearly, sharply, logically. And then, perhaps, one would know what love is.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.