7,738 Quotes About Freedom

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

This energy feels like a pull from the ancestors, helping me to find my own way, to transcend my own fears.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.