Quotes about Freedom

I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.