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  • And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

  • Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

  • No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

    Freedom   Heart   Men  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
  • I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

    Freedom   Party   Black  
  • For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

    Runner's World magazine, June 2009.
  • Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  • Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

  • The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

    Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

    Freedom   Sleep   World  
  • Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.

  • The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

    Freedom   Stupid   Mind  
    Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”
  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

    Joseph Addison, H. Baldwin (imp.) (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.44
  • As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

    LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”
  • The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

  • A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  • With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.

    Life   Change   Art  
    Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam (2002). “Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982”
  • Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

  • Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

    William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley
  • The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

    Peace   Freedom   War  
    "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,
  • Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

  • This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

    Freedom   Flying   Gold  
  • It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

  • Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

    Freedom   Integrity   Men  
    "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.
  • A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

  • We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

    Freedom   Ideas   Mind  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.949, Manonmani Publishers
  • If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

    Education   Freedom   War  
    Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816
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