“I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me.”— Beth Revis, amazon.com
“What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.”— Madeleine Albright, en.wikiquote.org
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“I wonder,’ wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom, of which the degraded rebels would deprive us.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org
“…how sad and hard It is, and how rare, to undertake an act that’s truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.”— Ariana Reines, poetryfoundation.org
“The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piece meal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead,…”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.”— Friedrich Engels, en.wikiquote.org
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“We're victims of sedition on the open sea No one ever said life was free Sink, swim, go down with the ship Just use your freedom of choice.”— Maynard James Keenan, open.spotify.com
“Once unquestining obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”— Tomaž Šalamun, goodreads.com
“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com