Quotes About Freedom

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

No hay buena fe en América, ya sea entre los hombres o entre las naciones —se lamentaba cierta vez Bolívar—. Los tratados son papeles, las Constituciones libros, las elecciones batallas, la libertad anarquía y la vida un tormento. Lo único que se puede hacer en América es emigrar.

Ma járt le a borivás és a színház ellen tett fogadalmam, s úgy határoztam, élek is e szabadságommal, miel?tt újra fogadalmat teszek.

If people are busy living out myths you don't like, leave them to it.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you become-" [...] "exactly who you are.

it is better to accept the inevitable with energy. Well then, if I have not chosen up till now, now I choose. That is freedom. Having chosen, I am free. Somewhere in my memory

The particular verbal freedom of SF, coupled with the corrective process that allows the whole range of the physically explainable universe, can produce the most violent leaps of imagery. For not only does it throw us worlds away, it specifies how we got there.

I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free.... only I was cruel. I had the chance to do it, and I took it. Why is that bad, Vyme? Unless, of course, that's what being free means.

Know then this journey seeks to define ends, seeks shores where farther oceans start; caged by the over-muscled heart, we are trapped in that bright moment where we learned our doom, but still we struggle, knowing, too, that freedom is imposed the very moment when the trap springs...

held out for arbitrary Thursdays. He

Tarzan,' I said, 'if my old lady wants to fuck a sheep with a dildo strapped to her nose, that is largely her concern, very secondarily mine, and not yours at all. She can fuck anything she wants—with the possible exception of you.

There are certain directions in which you cannot go. Choose one in which you can move as far as you want.

What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].

An unlawful war can't make lawful captives.

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,The furrow followed free;We were the first that ever burstInto that silent sea.

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Standing on the earth and think to fly high.

Liberty and love These two I must have. For my love I'll sacrifice My life. For liberty I'll sacrifice My love.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.