Quotes About Freedom

We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity—in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even.

Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.

Had he any choice? Can one decide whether to love or not? Yes, probably. One could walk away from life and choose half a life, paralysis of the soul.

Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else.

There was no reason why not.

What was freedom worth without safety from injustice, violence and hunger? Freedom to do what?

one thing about responsibility Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot ever take anyone else's, no matter how you love them, and no one can give you theirs. We each stand alone.

adventure or decision or freedom of any kind.

Man is a creature full of the power of the mind, if only we free it from the shackles of fear. Terrified of the new, quaking at the prospect of making a mistake. What do a few mistakes matter?

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.

They know how bad they are. They don't care. They do what they do because...because they love it.

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again

You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways.

And money you have, Rose. Plenty of it. And time. And if time can't give us freedom to do what we want, what good is time?

There comes a time when a house owns you and you know you have to get free of it, and go on with the rest of your life.

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that women would make and what women have to teach men. And only when men can be taught, will they be allowed to run free among women again!

Tis the gift to be simple... 'Tis the gift to be free...

At times I felt a huge exhilaration, a freedom from all falsehoods and conventions, all means by which a soul or body can be held hostage!

our soul, once set free, seeks only to return.

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.