Quotes About Freedom

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?

No one have the right to choose who you will be.

When man is not permitted to be himself, he cannot be encountered.

The things that interest me and the stories I want to write, their factual accuracy is not something I want to make a claim about. I don't want people to know what details are true and which ones aren't. I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside the script.

The existentialists said you couldn't make decisions based on preexisting norms or codes, which were always too general for any given case. Rather, every decision you made created you. The decision (existence) comes first, and creates essence.

In America, childhood was a time to play and be innocent, to not have to make money or do anything that counted for anything.

Every single pagan philosopher of the ancient world said that if you wanted to be free, you had to learn the hard ways of virtue and that the worst form of slavery was slavery to your own appetites.

People who can organize themselves and accomplish something as devilishly complicated as a good ballgame are hard to herd around. They can form societies of their own. They become men and women, not human resources. They can be free.

To say to young people, "There are no such things, really, as beauty and goodness," is to do far worse than to fail to direct them out of the cave and into the sun. It is to cut out the hearts of those who might still be minded to make that pilgrimage. It is worse than to fail to direct the ship of the soul by the constant star of the North. It is to tear the tiller out of the ship entirely and leave it at the mercy of the winds, and to call the aimlessness "freedom.

Having served for nearly half a century in the House of Commons, I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

Secondly, we have to learn that people must be informed. A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

How can we enable the unconscious to realize itself? By granting it freedom of expression and then examining what it has expressed.

Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious existence of collective conformity.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

What he also records is his delight in discovering that, if only adults left him alone, he could, through reading, escape into a world of his own.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.