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Freedom Quotes
"When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self's (Soul's) abode, it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti)."
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"I think if we stop running towards broken arms, we'd all be just fine."
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
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"For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution."
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"Emancipation of mind is the greatest liberty."
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"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."
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"Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination."
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"Freedom is a place, an area. It's a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and things that are here which are unseen. But you first have to set yourself free and believe in what you cannot see, believe that there is something more out there. In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have peace. All these unseen things breathe and grow in the unseen soul. A free person is not an uncommitted person, but in a free person you will find a deep devotion, and a desire to be devoted to even more."
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"Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation."
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"Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of our lives - which I hope we do anyway. And have a house apart, by the side of no road, with country about & a study & walls of bookcases."
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"Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations."
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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
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"Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it."
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
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"I think that, generally, people of the world typify a "free and wild" person as someone who's uprooted, detached and uninhibited. But I don't believe in that kind of freedom. I think that's an infantile concept. Freedom means something when it has escaped something! Those people who escaped things- their inner cages, cages set by others around them- when those people are able to roam free and say, "This is who I am because this is who I choose to be", THAT is freedom. Freedom isn't being stupid; freedom is being so smart that you develop a strength strong enough to break free and become your own person. A better person than what your circumstances would like to define you as."
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"You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it."
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"So now it's this thing I do.I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,to new places with foreign streets I haven't walked yet,and there I wander, up and down, watching people going places I don't knowand it always hits me that they're never alone,always with someone,and I wonder how they would spend a day all on their own in a foreign city with nothing to do and no one to see,and I wonder if they'd be happy.Just simply being free,like I am trying to be.Happy.Just simply being me."
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"One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, how the few who do care about you, marvel at your indifference."
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"You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you."
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"If freedom rings, then bondage bombs."
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"Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom."
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"Love sets you free the moment it arrests you."
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"Creativity flourishes where there is freedom."
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