Quotes about Freedom

Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical—that if shame no longer exists, you won't either—the reality is that you will be more you without shame.

Imagine having drug cravings subdued by the joy of knowing and obeying Christ. Imagine having temptations lose their allure because there is more pleasure in walking humbly with our God. Imagine waking up and strategizing how to please the God who loves you rather than where you will get your next drink. This would be freedom. Sound impossible? It isn't.

With rebellion, awareness is born.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

The fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres.

I don't want to be a prisoner of comfort.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.