Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"I believe more follies are committed
out of complaisance to the world,
than in following our own inclinations."

~ Mary Wortley Montagu  

"The essential support and encouragement comes from within,
arising out of the mad notion that your society
needs to know what only you can tell it."

~ John Updike  

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit;
and wise are they who obey its signals.
If it does not always tell us what to do,
it always cautions us what not to do."

~ Lydia M. Child  

"Like an ability or a muscle,
hearing your inner wisdom
is strengthened by doing it."

~ Robbie Gass  

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh  

"There exists a 'fear of freedom' of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate."

~ James A. C. Brown  

"Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"If I am walking with two other men,
each of them will serve as my teacher.
I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them,
and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

~ Confucius  

"When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility."

~ C. Arthur Campbell  

"How can you come to know yourself?
Never by thinking; always by doing.
Try to do your duty,
and you'll know right away what you amount to."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."

~ Carl Schurz  

"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian... we can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop... free to work... free to choose my own teachers... free to follow the religion of my Fathers... free to think and talk and act for myself."

~ Chief Joseph  

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

~ Max DePree