Quotes about Freedom

And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said what it was. Possibly, to many of them, all it meant was the right to have money. Or get more of it.

If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me. And it's the place from which I should live . . . loved.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.

the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.

Only obedience,' he said aloud to the room, as though to convince himself, 'is perfect freedom.