Quotes About Freedom

Hypatia:...I don't want to be good; and I don't want to be bad: I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad: I want to be an active verb. Lord Summerhays: An active verb? Oh, I see.An active verb signifies to be, to do or to suffer. Hypatia: Just so; how clever of you! I want to be; I want to do; and I'm game to suffer if it costs that. But stick here doing nothing but being good and nice and ladylike I simply won't.

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

I don't say it was a bad one. But bad or good, I didn't choose to be cut to your measure. And I won't be cut to it.

ANARCHIST. I told you to begin by abolishing the State. Now we are all lost.

I have always made you my companions and friends, and allowed you perfect freedom to do and say whatever you liked, so long as you liked what I could approve of.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

The real slavery of to-day is slavery to ideals of virtue.

So the Gospel is not a message of condemnation as some abusive leaders would have us think but rather a message of freedom and empowerment.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

People always tell me Have a nice day. Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts...

They give you a colouring book and some crayons, and tell you, be creative...but don't go outside the lines.

Rights aren't really rights if someone can take them away.

You are a good young man, she said. But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

He longed now to have the sort of apprenticeship to life which would not shape him too definitely, and rob him of the choice that might come from a free growth.