Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
Through discipline comes freedom.
God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.
When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.
No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.
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