Quotes and sayings on freedom

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
James Baldwin

The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.
H. L. Mencken

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Patricia Sampson

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey

The ability to free your mind from unwanted thoughts is real freedom.
Remez Sasson

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Freedom is like taking a bath -- you have to keep doing it every day!
Florynce Kennedy

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
Francis Wright

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir