Quotes About Freedom

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Heaven is to live a life of freedom

Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.

Pasha stalk beside, my monster fabulous and tame, and be like fleeing every worry to a secret hush.

She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.

Always be yourself unless you can be a Pirate, then always be a Pirate! Oooooohhhh! Aaaaarrrrggghhh! May the wind always be at your back!

We are like two wild birds destined to blow where the wilderness of the wind takes us. Your spirit is as untrammelled as an eagle's, as loyal, as courageous. It is the secret of our souls: what we have, we have for ever.

Por qué el voto de quienes no tienen criterio ni educación ni cultura vale lo mismo que el de quienes sí la tienen?, ¿por qué un voto obtenido con un revólver en la cabeza o lavando el cerebro de la gente con publicidad o comprado con cincuenta mil pesos, vale igual que un voto expresado en libertad? Pregúntaselo a los defensores de la democracia. Esa es la gran perversidad, pero esto no se puede decir.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

Delicate girl once again I leaped and wandered

He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her.

There's no need to whisper," Elizabeth told her now. "You could sing at the top of your voices and no one would hear you out here on the water." But the women smiled at her suggestion in surprise and unease, as if she had told them that they could fly.

He realized that you can try as hard as you want to escape who you are, but eventually, you realize there is no escape. There's nowhere to run, and nothing to run to. Nothing ever really changes. The state of life on earth is exactly what it is, and the only chance of a happy life is accepting that. Accepting life as it is. And knowing that there is no escape. And that's the only freedom he's ever been able to find.

Much of my life was a dreary grind in which I was responsible for everything, always. For someone else to take that responsibility, even for a few minutes, was pure pleasure.

What I'd loved was what money could make happen. Money could buy you things, but more so, buy you time: time to travel, to write, to read, to walk, to have sex.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this IS home.

world's first labor story: Exodus. Pharaoh was the first bad boss, Moses was the first labor leader, and the Exodus was the first strike.

Once Upon a time,' the stories would begin ... no particular time, fictional time, fairy-story time. This is a doorway; if you are lucky, you go through it as a child, aurally, before you can read, and if you are very lucky, you become a free citizen of an ancient republic and can come and go as you please.

Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.

prohibido prohibir' y de 'siempre sonríe y la fuerza estará contigo'".

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over