How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
In the mist of remenbering what this day's all about we need to acknowledge, that our freedom is a gift! A gift...… — Uriël Theunis Copy Share Image
By all standards, my mother was strict. Any independence we had was earned through mutual trust and respect. She was a parent… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In a democracy, everyone has the right to an opinion and to freedom of expression. That doesn't give anyone the right to… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle… — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
“One has to understand [Who am I? and Who is the doer?] and become one [with the Self]. Those who have tried… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There’s several colonies setup on islands that have not been touched yet by Europeans and I’m sure some of them will be… — Gordon Allard Copy Share Image
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom is not just the matter of saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a specific decision: it is the power to mold… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
“Impostor Times by Stewart Stafford When dark forces mask your eyes Happiness, a distant beacon dream Hope approaches your warming fire Enjoy… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
I do not say that being ambitious or adventurous is wrong. One should take into account his or her family, environment, society,… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
“In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth-century parents allowed their daughters… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit.… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
“The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“What is there left to understand? Choice is an illusion. Freedom is conceit. The hands that reach out to guide your every… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will would grow from my freedom, I would become the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she… — Anne Mather Copy Share Image
“Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“but what I have realized over time is that in many ways, money spells freedom. If you learn to control your finances,… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“As the creators of sophisticated technologies, we have made ourselves increasingly machine-like; robotic servants of institutional systems we have been conditioned to… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image