Quotes about Freedom

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom : the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink