Quotes About Freedom

He who would travel happily must travel light.

With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it cant return even if it wants to.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.

but there had been nothing equal to it since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. (In 1685 Louis XIV had removed that freedom granted to the Huguenots by Henry IV to practise their own religion; it led to persecution followed by widespread emigration.) It was an odd comparison since the Revocation removed a liberty and Catholic Emancipation granted it.

One discourse celebrates detachment with the image of a rhinoceros: 'One whose mind is enmeshed in sympathy for friends and companions, neglects the true goal. Seeing this danger in intimacy, wander alone like a rhinoceros. … As a deer in the wilds, unfettered, goes for forage wherever it wants: the wise person, valuing freedom, wanders alone like a rhinoceros.

Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.

When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.

Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.

What makes an American…is not the name or the blood or even the place of birth, but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for.

You should be in no doubt that, patriotic conservative that I am, I detest the burning of the nation's flag—and if I were king I would make it a crime. But as I understand the First Amendment, it guarantees the right to express contempt for the government, the Congress, the Supreme Court, even the nation and the nation's flag.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.