For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 54
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
Jenny Shipley
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
Leo McKern
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
Georges Braque
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
Diane Nash
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.
Ravi Zacharias
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
Lyn Nofziger
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
Learned Hand