We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Probably the very best thing my earnings have given me is absence of worry. I have not forgotten what it feels like to worry whether you'll have enough to pay the bills. Not to have to think about that any more is the biggest luxury in the world.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

On the path mapped out by the true spiritual philosophers and pioneers, there is great emphasis placed on the idea and need for renunciation. It is seen as the way to enlightenment, and freedom from the attachments which we misuse as sources of limited happiness and contentment. Renunciation does not mean giving everything away, shaving our heads, saying farewell to family and friends and finding a Himalayan mountain top. It means seeing our attachments and dependencies, our weaknesses and our evasions, and consciously giving them up. There is no sense of loss. The material necessities still come to us, paradoxically more will come. And when we renounce our own weaknesses and dependencies there is always a strength and a new freedom to be found hiding underneath. Renunciation is a pathway to a simpler life and a highway to spiritual freedom - one of spirit's deepest yearnings in 'the age of accumulation'.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

We are imagining that we are bound and are making various strenuous attempts to become free, while we are all the time free.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Once you have surrendered completely to God, you experience for the first time absolute freedom from the worries, problems and ills of this world. You can be happy and even laugh in apparent adversity. Whatever is happening is a game, God's game and you play your part and enjoy it.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Freedom is from within

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

It's true. I'm a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -- and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness. The whole work of meditation is to make you aware of all that is "mind" and disidentify yourself from it. That very separation is the greatest revolution that can happen to man. Now you can do and act on only that which makes you more joyous, fulfills you, gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty. But this is possible only if the master in you is awake. Right now the master is fast asleep. And the mind, the servant, is playing the role of master. And the servant is created by the outside world, it follows the outside world and its laws. Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. There is no blissfulness more precious than freedom, than being a master of your own destiny.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.