Quotes about Freedom
There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
— Richard Baxter
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
— Nancy Pearcey
There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.
— Martin Luther King III
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
— Theodore Roosevelt
What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
— Jack Kerouac
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
— Melody Beattie
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
— Albert Camus
Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.
— Thomas Merton
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
— Michael Novak