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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

That government is best which governs least.

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone. The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.