Freedom Quotes - Page 18

Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger

The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.

Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.

It takes immense courage to awaken the spirit of billions across the world - to ensure that they have freedom to be free, independent and non-violent.

The challenge is trying to set people free, and help them be 'successful' in the world, which are almost always opposite objectives.

When you judge you are limiting yourself, you are limiting your reach.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

O the joy of my spirit-it is uncaged-it darts like lightning!
It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have thousands of globes and all time.

Our names were made for us in another century.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
~ Margaret Thatcher

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.