Quote from Soren Aabye Kierkegaard:
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Simimal Quotes:
Seneca
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
William James
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
Jean Cocteau
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the seal of attained freedom? -No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
Byron Katie
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.
Henry David Thoreau
I would say to my fellows, once for all, as long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
Andrew Cohen
Freedom has no history.
Andrew Cohen
If you dare to take up the banner of enlightenment, you will be attacked from all sides. From the inside you will be attacked by your own mind and from the outside you will be attacked by everyone else's mind. Anyone who dares to succeed automatically presents a huge threat. If true freedom is going to survive within you, you have to be willing to fight for it. You have to have a sword in each hand at all times. One sword is for your own mind and the other sword is for everyone else's mind. You must be ready to use them. Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.
Robert Allen
No thought ever lives in your head rent-free.
Colin Powell
Freedom to be your best is nothing unless you're willing to do your best.
Kaleel Jamison
Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, to possessively, and the relationships slips away and is lost.
