We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

We are not at war against Islam.

Going home helps the content.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

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

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.