Quotes about Freedom
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.
— Frank Herbert
What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.
— Frank Herbert
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.
— Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone…animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual…
— Frank Herbert
The moment He set me free is the moment He captured me.
— Frank Viola
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
— Maya Angelou
The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.
— Martin Luther King III
I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.
— Ben Carson
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
— Mike Pence
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
— Coco Chanel