We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

You can’t do something forever.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Democracy passes into despotism.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.