We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it you don't notice it.
But on average I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training you accentuate the problem.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
The precondition to freedom is security.
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom it is what makes us men.
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have but rather it is a sacred duty and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it even as a temporary measure is to betray it.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Here's a nation one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation because he aspires to freedom.
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
America to me is freedom.
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
But I found that disappointing people is a good thing because disapproval is freedom.
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Back then I didn't think a woman like that or a relationship like that could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
But I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.