Freedom For Youth Quotes

#1. That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties ... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

Shirin Ebadi

#3. Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

#4. We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

Christopher McDougall

#5. I once had a mind of quicksand,
That dragged ideas into its depths,
Inhaling specks of sunlight,
Every time I drew a breath,
But the world thought me a hazard,
When every word I spoke, I meant,
So around me they put caution tape,
And filled me with cement.

Erin Hanson

#6. To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

Jomo Kenyatta

#7. In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere.

A.A. Gill

#8. We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.

Taylor Rhodes

#9. To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Jon Landau

#10. O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

Albert Einstein

#11. We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

Euripides

#13. In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

#14. VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

Frances Beinecke

#15. Friendship means we are obligated to one another, but obligated in a way that doesn't destroy our freedom.

Andrew Root

#16. If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

Chandra Shekhar Azad

#17. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

#18. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

Louisa May Alcott

#19. As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

K. Martin Beckner

#20. In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

Ruth Ozeki

#21. Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Joshua Wong

#22. I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

Brendan Cowell

#23. I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#25. It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#26. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

May Swenson

#27. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.

Mark Lewis Taylor

#28. What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.

Aldo Leopold

#29. We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I'm not entirely sure which. But the scream shook the golden sunset, bringing it to its knees.

Taylor Rhodes

#30. Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Vita Sackville-West

#31. Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Cassandra Clare

#32. It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh

#33. Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.

Justine Picardie

#34. Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Martin Grotjahn