Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

I'm standing for real freedom.

No man can given anybody his freedom.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

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

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

The most powerful single force in the world today…man’s eternal desire to be free and independent.

Self Emancipation

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

I have not brought you freedom, I found it here among you.