External Freedom Quotes

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

We cannot develop unless we enjoy both internal and external freedom: even the freedom of thinking about freedom.