Quotes About Freedom

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: "Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly

Montaigne: "To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

There are no lobbyists for the American Dream.

But, if we let it, technology can also add a lot of noise and distraction that get in the way of our most fundamental creative capabilities—instead of freeing us, it can consume us. What

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

Artemis is freedom—wild, untrammelled, aloof from all entanglements. She is a huntress, a dancer, the goddess of nature and wildness, a virgin physically and, even more important, a virgin psychologically, inviolable, belonging to no one, defined by no relationship, confined by no bond.

All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things weren't getting me any love.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

If you don't like the fairy tales you've been handed, Ariel, you don't have to conform to them. You can reauthor them. You can write your story however you choose.

There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise, and then writing about it. It's like having a new lover—even the parts you aren't crazy about have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.

Live the life you want.

Vivrò il destino come ho scelto da solo. Perciò non tornerò indietro.

You can dump him in a car. You can dump him in a bar. You can dump him here or there. You can dump him anywhere. You can dump him with a text. He should be your future ex.

May I take refuge in my capacity to awaken. May I take refuge in the ways of living that bring about my freedom and happiness. May I feel open to all those who can support me on this path of freedom.

A slave is but half a man.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty