Quotes About Freedom

No matter how many decathlons you run, how many shoes you buy or how famous you get, those unresolved, unbearable feelings exist below. Freud was on the button when he said you have to bring your darkness into the light if you want to free yourself from those deep unconscious emotions. Just like a virus has to be sweated out, your malignant thoughts and feelings have to surface.

If the party was so great and benevolent, why should it be so frightened of dissent or free thinking? Yet, they punished even the slightest opposition.

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

The urge for social justice can only develop properly and be effective when it grows out of man's sense of personal freedom and is based on that. In other words Socialism will be free or it will not be at all.

Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development of a free humanity.

Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all social matters.

Socialism will be free, or it will not be at all.

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

What stands if Freedom fall?Who dies if England live?

Who hath desired the sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,Or the way of a man with a maid;But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the seaIn the heel of the Northeast Trade.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

...rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains....

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?