Quotes About Freedom

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

The goal of the Buddha's teaching is Nibb?na (Sanskrit: Nirv??a). Literally translated, that means "not burning," or in other words, the loss of all passions.

The point of freedom was that everyone could dress however they wanted, was it not? Was it genuinely such a point of offense to women who dressed more liberally that she, Nour, chose not to?

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

NÆ°á»›c nào không có tá»± do báo chí thì cÅ©ng không th? có dân ch?.

Ä°nsanlar kendi kaderlerine yüzüstü b?rak?ld?ktan, çoÄŸunluk mutsuz, tesadüflerin elinde oyuncak yap?ld?ktan sonra, onlara "özgürce rekabet ederek geliÅŸebilirsiniz!" demek, sömürenlerin, ezilen insanlara oynad??? bir oyundur.

Not unfortunately the universe is wild — game-flavoured as a hawk's wing.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

There is no getting used to pain and suffering. You become only hard-boiled, and you lose a certain capacity to be impressed by feelings. Yet no human being will ever become used to sufferings to such an extent that his heart will cease to cry out that eternal prayer of all human beings: "I hope that my Liberator comes!" He is the master of the world, he who can make his coins out of the hope of slaves.

It's always the same when I feel the autumn coming. I want to be up and away somewhere, over the hills and far away.

I wish him luck,' said Robin, voicing his thoughts, 'and may he live in the Chase for years and years and never be caught.

Freedom is an illusion, but a valuable one.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... [a man] may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled.

We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the old system, nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That's the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement-- there's no restraint and no revolt. By careful cultural design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination to behave-- the motives, desires, the wishes.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.