Ernest Gaines Quotes

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

It is yours [the state’s right] to shackle the body, and restrain our external actions; that is a restraint we understand. Announce your penalties, and we will make our election of submission or suffering. But do not seek to enslave our minds.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

Being free is a state of mind.

Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

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.

I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

With hope, a mind is always free.

Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

None but ourselves can free our minds.