Quotes About Freedom

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.

It's about the feeling you get: the road beneath the soles of your feet, the smell in the air. It makes you feel strong, somehow, invincible.

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

We are the guests of Jesus. We are there because he asks us, and because he wants our company. At the same time we are set free to invite Jesus into our lives and literally to receive him into our bodies in the Eucharist.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

The death of Jesus breaks the chain between evil actions and evil consequences

Venceréis Al Dios Del Miedo... Sólo Entonces Seréis Libres"- Profecía de Urayoán

However you define success—a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions—it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.

A free mind will out-think a controlled mind every time.

They'll Have to shoot me first to take my Gun.

We will not get real freedom as a concession from rulers. We will have to win real freedom for ourselves.

The free society is characterized by the radical decentralization of all kinds of power. Confederal structures do not rule over communities; they are the means by which communities cooperate.

An anarchist society is not one free of conflict. It is a society in which the resolution of such conflicts is not monopolized by an elite.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Y aquellas alas de mariposa azul de qué nos sirven? preguntarán los que nacieron sin alas. ¿De qué nos sirve eso que flota en el vago azul de los sueños? Contesta el poeta: -Pour des certains êtres sublimes, planer c'est servir.

Hoy, en plena primavera, dejo abierta la puerta de la jaula al pobre pájaro azul.

Y aquellas alas de mariposa azul de qué nos sirven? preguntarán los que nacieron sin alas.

O meu nome diz o que devo ser, o que devo pensar, o que devo falar. Meu nome é uma gaiola em que estou preso. Mas se, ao acordar, eu tiver me esquecido do meu nome, terei esquecido também de tudo que se espera de mim. Se nada se espera de mim, estou livre para ser aquilo que nunca fui. Começarei a viver minha vida a partir de mim mesmo e não a partir do nome que me deram e pelo qual sou conhecido.

Todo mundo diz que quer liberdade. É mentira. A liberdade traz muita confusão à cabeça. Melhores são as rotinas, que nos livram da maçada de ter de tomar decisões sobre o que fazer com a liberdade. Quem tem rotinas não precisa tomar decisões. A vida já está decidida.

A nossa vida começa justamente com o advento da inutilidade. Pois o momento da inutilidade marca o início da vida de gozo. Nada mais preciso fazer. Travei as batalhas que tinha de travar. Nada devo a ninguém. Estou livre agora para me entregar ao deleite.

So many people want to label you as funny or aggressive or a mess. We are condemned by other people to stagnate in the image they have of us; held ransom by their expectations like a butterfly pinned on cardboard.

Epicurus said that there are only three important ingredients to happiness: friendship, freedom (not to be owned by anyone), and an analysed life. The more you lack these three things, the more you'll want power and money, and they always lead to unhappiness.