Freedom Quotes - Page 88

When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.

No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

Would you rather be right or free?

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.