Quotes About Freedom

Atenas también necesitaban remeros, lo cual significaba que los hombres libres que no poseían mucho más que su fuerza podían obtener la ciudadanía empuñando el remo.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care.

You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say!" she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.

Hasta que uno no ha perdido la reputación, no comprende que era un peso enorme y que la libertad es algo formidable.

I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.

Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe.... What do we care about missing the tour?

How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever courted by handsome men.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is

Until you have lost your reputation you never know what a burden it was or what freedom is.

She was permitting herself the luxury she had often dreamed-of doing exactly what she pleased and telling people who didn't like it to go to hell. To her had come that pleasant intoxication peculiar to those whose lives are a deliberate slap in the fact of organized society-the gambler, the confidence man, the polite adventuress, all those who succeed by their wits.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.