Quotes About Freedom

Well, then, it's quite simple . . . Christine Daaé shall leave this as she pleases and come back again! . . . Yes, come back again, because she wishes . . . come back of herself, because she loves me for myself! . . .

That [never leaving home] is an undertaking which I have not asked of you and a promise which I refuse to make you!' said the young girl, haughtily. 'I am mistress of my own actions, M de Chagny: you have no right to control them; and I will beg you to desist henceforth. As to what I have done during the last fortnight, there is only one man in the world who has the right to demand an account of me: my husband! Well, I have no husband and I never mean to marry!

That is an undertaking which I have not asked of you and a promise which I refuse to make you! said the young girl haughtily. I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth. As to what I have done during the last fortnight, there is only one man in the world who has the right to demand an account of me: my husband! Well, I have no husband and I never mean to marry!

True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be free and autonomous.

I own an island. Because when you have a chance to own an island, you just do.)

Wait. So what am I supposed to do now? You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey. (222-223)

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE ! That is the single most amazing thing I've ever heard.

My rule is never save bits. They get in the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in, but I don't want you to let them lock you in.

The Aelf have struggled to free themselves from the monster called Kulili throughout their history. You are their last hope, and their best. I am not letting you out of my sight—no, not for ten thousand puking maidens.

it seems to me that no poet can be greater than the one who announces to a man that freedom is his right.

I had been crazy since I was born, and now I was sane and it felt wonderful. The wind and the waves were sitting in that cave with me twisting thread, and nature was not something outside anymore.

He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves.

if he is to feel full satisfaction at the moment when Time lifts his own severed head by the hair, he must add to the execution some feature however small that is entirely his own and that he will never repeat. Only thus can he feel himself a free artist.

Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.

Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.

El amor es una cosa tan libre como el espíritu.

Aos amantes apresento esta questão: quem o mais desditoso, Arcita ou Palamon? Este avistava a amada todo dia, mas não podia abandonar o cárcere; aquele tinha toda a liberdade, mas nunca mais veria o seu amor.

Yow loveres axe I now this questioun, Who hath the worse, Arcite or Palamoun?   490 That oon may seen his lady day by day, But in prison he moot dwelle alway. That other wher him list may ryde or go, But seen his lady shal he never-mo. Now demeth as yow liste, ye that can,   495 For I wol telle forth as I bigan. Explicit prima Pars.    Sequitur pars secunda.

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

Wir alle sind Narren, es hat keiner das Recht, einem andern seine eigentümliche Narrheit aufzudringen. - Jeder muss in seiner Art genießen können, jedoch so, dass keiner auf Unkosten eines andern genießen oder ihn in seinem eigentümlichen Genuss stören darf.