Freedom is self-determination.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

Perfect freedom
is perfect self-determination.
-R. J. Campbell

Freedom for each individual Spirit
is freedom to pursue its way
in the labyrinth of life,
according to is own instincts,
and express itself according to its uniqueness.
-Nilankantha Sri Ram

Each one must feel free
to act on the basis of his own individual judgement,
and be responsible to himself
for his decisions, mistakes and action.
-Nilankantha Sri Ram

You are free to do whatever you like.
You need only face the consequences.
-Sheldon Kopp

The will is never free -
it is always attached to an object,
a purpose.
-Joyce Cary

Freedom lies in being bold.
-Robert Frost

The secret of freedom, courage.
-Thucydides

How did the Meadow flower
its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little
flower is free
Down to its root,
and in that freedom, bold.
-William Wordsworth

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
-Moshe Dyan

There are many ways to be free.
One of them is to transcend reality by imagination,
as I try to do.
-Anais Nin

There is more than one kind of freedom...
Freedom to and freedom from.
-Margaret Atwood

Different persons long for different kinds of freedom
according to the different things they have come to value.
Relative freedom which is the brand of freedom usually involved,
is sought in all phases of life,
and is usually related to the type of existence people wish to lead.
For instance, those who identify themselves with their country
instinctively work for national or political freedom.
Those who are motivated by economic considerations
strive for economic freedom.
Those who are inspired by religious drives
work towards religious freedom.
Those who espouse some sociological or cultural ideology
promote freedom of movement or speech.
-Meher Baba

All the different kinds of freedom
will give momentary sensation of being free,
but true freedom is in ourselves.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

For you who know longer possess it,
freedom is everything,
for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
-Emile M. Cioran

There is no such thing
as part freedom.
-Nelson Mandela

We don't appreciate what we have until its gone.
Freedom is like that. It's like air.
When you have it, you don't notice it.
-Boris Yeltsin

Freedom is the right
to one's dignity as a man.
-Archibald MacLeish

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul,
except to walk free and own no superior?
-Walt Whitman

Everything can be taken from a man but...
the last of the human freedoms -
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
-Viktor Frankl

Then men can have no more power over us,
because they can neither take us by our desires,
nor by our fears.
-Francois Fenelon

So I never doubted that ultimately we were going to be free,
because ultimately, I knew there was no way
a lie could prevail over the truth,
darkness over light, death over life.
-Desmond Tutu

The function of freedom
is to free someone else.
-Toni Morrison

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects and enhances
the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela

No man makes another free.
-Zora Neale Hurston

Freedom can not be given...
It can only be taken away.
-David Allan Coe

In the truest sense,
freedom cannot be bestowed;
it must be achieved.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are all free
until we become enslaved to an attitude.
-Manly Hall

You cannot be free
until you have freed yourself.
-Jason Lotterhand

Whoever will be free must make himself free;
freedom is no fairy's gift to fall into any man's lap.
-Friedrich Wilhelm von Nietzsche

You can't chase freedom.
-Richard Rudd

Abstract liberty,
like other mere abstractions,
is not to be found.
-Edmund Burke

Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

First the inner freedom,
then the outer freedom.
-Charles Stanley Nott

Freedom begins
when we become conscious of it.
-Vernon Howard

You have more freedom than you are using.
-Dan Attoe

Freedom is the baseless foundation of being.
It is deeper than all being.
-Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is more primary than being:
it cannot be determined by our being;
it is bottomless, foundationless.
-Nikolai Berdyaev

We must always bear in mind
that we are not going to be free,
but are free already.
Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
-Vivekananda

We make strenuous efforts to become free
although all the while we are free.
-Ramana Maharshi

Our freedom partakes of the absolute freedom of the whole,
yet is conditioned by the need to function in limitation.
-Arthur Osborne

Man is condemned to be free.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom may be the most important thing in life,
but there's such a thing as too much freedom.
-Truman Capote

Man is not born free.
He is born to free himself.
-Nanak

Man is born free,
and everywhere is in chains.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The whole world yearns after freedom,
yet each creature is in love with his chains;
this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Each in the cell of himself
is almost convinced of his freedom.
-W. H. Auden

Your destiny is to be free.
Are you?
-Kenneth G. Mills

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for,
because every man makes his own prison.
-Edwin Arnold

Here is your choice:
whether you truly wish to escape from the prison
or are you just fooling yourself.
-Richard Alpert, "Ram Dass"

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on...
the mask that feels so comfortable
and is so hard to shed off,
not because it fits so will
but because you have been wearing it for so long.
-Florinda Donner

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself,
never an atom freer.
-George MacDonald

Man is free
at the moment he wishes to be.
-Voltaire

The moment the slave resolves
that he will no longer be a slave,
his fetters fall...
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
-Mohandas Gandhi

We must be willing
to pay a price for freedom.
-H. L. Mencken

There is a price you have to pay
to be free of the situation once and for all.
It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -
but there is a price.
-Harry Browne

We gain freedom
when we have paid the full price.
-Rabindrananth Tagore

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
-Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement,
we must choose freedom
and the responsibility this entails.
-Leo Buscaglia

Responsibility is the price of freedom.
-Elbert Hubbard

Whoever will be free must make himself free. 

Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. 

What is freedom? 

To have the will to be responsible for one's self. 

-Max Stirner

To enjoy freedom
we have to control ourselves.
-Virginia Woolf

As far as your self-control goes,
as far goes your freedom.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Freedom is like taking a bath:
you've got to keep doing it every day.
-Florynce Kennedy

Liberty exists
in proportion to wholesome restraint.
-Daniel Webster

The more constraints one imposes,
the more one frees one's self.
-Igor Stravinsky

Every freedom always predicates
discipline and asceticism
and always perishes if these are lacking.
-Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom demands
that man maintain his dignity and purity,
that he control himself.
-Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom means being able to move through the characteristics of the world
without losing the stability and integrity of Consciousness.
-Robert Vaughn Abrams

In the last analysis,
our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
-Bernard Baruch

He who overcomes himself is free!
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own;
freedom and life are earned by those
who conquer them each day anew.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must not be free
because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy,
for it means pushing back a boundary-line
and adding to one's liberty.
-Henri Frederic Amiel

You have freedom
when you're easy in your harness.
-Robert Frost

Freedom is order in both body and mind.
-Vanda Scaravelli

The road to freedom
lies not through mysteries or occult performances,
but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
-Ernest Holmes

Our liberty, rightly understood,
is but voluntary obedience to the universal laws of life.
-Henri Frederic Amiel

Freedom is a state of mind -
not freedom from something.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

I know but one freedom
and that is the freedom of the mind.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Bondage is of the mind;
freedom too is of the mind.
-Ramakrishna

Thought takes man out of servitude,
into freedom.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The free man is he who does not fear
to go to the end of his thought.
-Leon Blum

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves,
crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
-Alejandro Jodorowsky

To be free one must be conscious.
-P. D. Ouspensky

To be truly free of something,
one must first enter into, fulfill, and transcend
a relationship with it.
-Leyla Rael Rudhyar

This ideas of absence of freedom
must be studied individually by every person...
Everyone must be able to see in what way he is not free...
Everyone must find his own form of lack of freedom peculiar to him.
-P. D. Ouspensky

Knowledge (gnosis) sets us free:
who we were, what we have become;
where we were, wherein we have been thrown;
whereto we speed; wherefrom we are redeemed;
what is birth and what is rebirth.
-the Valentinians

None are so hopelessly enslaved
as those who falsely believe they are free.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are most free
when we are free from ourselves.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

All life is an effort to achieve freedom
from self-created entanglement.
-Meher Baba

Freedom is emptying the mind of experience.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom is first of all a freedom from oneself
as a product of the past,
because the influence of the past is a limitation of the present.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

To be absolutely free inwardly
one has to be free of one's past.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

Without freedom from the past,
there is no freedom at all.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be free inwardly
there has to be a non-attachment
that spells non-dependence psychologically
on anyone or anything.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

I don’t mind what happens. 

That is the essence of inner freedom. 

It is a timeless spiritual truth: 

release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, 

you’ll feel good no matter what.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti 

To be free is to be able to perform right actions
according to the dictates of one's own soul-wisdom,
not out of compulsion of habit, or blind obedience,
or unreasoning fear.
-Yogananda

The individual never achieves true freedom
until he is no longer pushed or pulled
by any inner compulsion.
-Meher Baba

It [freedom] consists in acting from a point
which is compelled neither from without nor from within.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

Freedom is a condition in which there is
not the compulsion of attractions and repulsions,
but only action according to the innate law of one's being.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

To do freely what you ought to do,
when you ought to do it -
to be guided by your wisdom -
is the only real freedom.
-Yogananda

You will be truly free
only when you fully understand
your personal limitations:
what you want to do, should do, can do,
and what you do not want to do, should not do and can not do.
-Sam Reifler

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like.
Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes.
And there is getting down to the deepest self!
It takes some diving.
-D. H. Lawrence

There are two freedoms:
the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
-Charles Kingsley

The man who does as he pleases
is in bondage to his own misdirected nature,
while that man alone is free
who wants to do what his true nature declares
he was created to do.
-Christian Larson

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like,
but the right of being to do what we ought.
-John Dalberg-Acton

The man who is truly free makes no choices;
he does what he must do.
-Dane Rudhyar

Freedom is only necessity understood.
-William James

Who then, is free?
The wise man who commands his passions,
who fears not want, nor death, nor chains,
firmly resisting his appetites
and despising the honors of the world,
who relies wholly on himself.
-Horace

Every virtuous man is free.
-Philo

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self
is called Liberty.
-Albert Pike

He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free,
an all are slaves besides.
-William Cowper

The highest perception of freedom comes
when a person has freed himself from the false ego.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

True freedom is within oneself.
When the soul is free,
there is nothing in this world that binds us.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

When I discover who I am,
I'll be free.
-Ralph Ellison

We gain our freedom
when we attain out truest nature.
-Rabindranath Tagore

If I am to be free,
I must stand at the center of my being.
-Shaun de Warren

No man is free until he is free at the center.
When he lets go there, he is free indeed.
-E. Stanley Jones

Real freedom is freedom in one's heart,
irrespective of external conditions.
-Nilankantha Sri Ram

True freedom is won and lost in the heart.
-Mikhail Naimy

Keep your heart clear and transparent
and you will never be bound.
-Ryokan

Love does not claim possession,
but gives freedom.
-Rabindranath Taogre

Is not freedom more subjective than objective,
more a feeling of freedom than a set of external conditions?
It is a state of mind and heart,
which can exist apart from the limitations of the body.
-Nilankantha Sri Ram

We can be free as birds from within our ribcages,
if our spirits are liberated.
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

Once you were tethered
now you are free
That was the river
this is the sea.
-Mike Scott

When man is free in spirit,
all other freedom is at his command.
-Aurobindo Ghose

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom
cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
-Vernon Howard