Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Liberty

• Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Liberty, Endure, Vedanta

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.155, Vivekananda Kendra

• Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1761, Manonmani Publishers

• Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Work Out, Growth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1161, Manonmani Publishers

• Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Race, Growth

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Ready

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

• Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Feet, Opposites

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1992, Manonmani Publishers

• Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Energy

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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