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Freedom Quotes


"Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ['Check and mate']"


"Be wild and boundless. Why are you crawling when you have wings of imagination?"


"In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!"


"There are so many people whose minds do not belong to them. There are so many people whose thoughts have been purchased by people. There are so many people who have made people kings and queens of their thought. There are so many people who cannot sleep because of people. There are so many people whose lives are a small percentage of their own self and a greater percentage of others. When the offenses of people occupy your mind, your mind becomes the offenses of people instead of your own mind. To have your own mind and to be your own self, free your mind!"



"It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country."


"The mind does not need four walls to make you its prisoner."


"There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!"


"Very few people think, most people just conform."


"You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good."


"We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears."


"We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself."


"Birds have wings to fly in the sky, you have an imagination to fly everywhere."



"Joblessness releases you from the world system."


"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."


"Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is."


"Keep your mind free and independent even when someone wants to imprison your body."


"Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation."


"The fear of rape puts many women in their place - indoors, intimidated, dependent yet again on material barriers and protectors... I was advised to stay indoors at night, to wear baggy clothes, to cover or cut my hair, to try to look like a man, to move someplace more expensive, to take taxis, to buy a car, to move in groups, to get a man to escort me-all modern versions of Greek walls and Assyrian veils, all asserting it was my responsibility to control my own and men's behavior rather than society's to ensure my freedom. I realized that many women had been so successfully socialized to know their place that they had chosen more conservative, gregarious lives without realizing why. The very desire to walk alone had been extinguished in them-but it had not in me."


"Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of the day where all the glory resides."


"Stop letting others decide your life for you. You only have a lifetime to live on earth. Make it count by all means. Stop hiding in the background. Let the world know what you are truly made of."


"The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly."


"The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom."


"Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!"


"You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong."


"If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside."


"Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro."


"Peace adores above everything free discussion and expression without intimidation."


"They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!"


"Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ['If he doesn't play ball ']"


"A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to."


"Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances."



"Employment is the greatest dream killer."


"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."



"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."


"Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God."


"The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones)."


"Bird has to fly with their own wings; we have to think our own thoughts, find our own destiny."
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