Quotes About Freedom

Todo liberal debe ser un agitador».

Él creía —era uno de sus grandes errores— que la distinción entre socialismo totalitario y democrático es una ilusión, algo provisional y aparente que, en la práctica, se iría borrando a favor del primero.

Pese a ello, la mentalidad tribal y la tentación colectivista de desaparecer al individuo dentro de una colectividad supuestamente homogénea e idéntica están lejos de haber sido superadas. Ellas retornan, de manera cíclica, como amenazas constantes a nuestra modernización y a que América Latina asuma, con todas sus consecuencias, la cultura de la libertad.

Mi salvación fue leer, leer los buenos libros, refugiarme en esos mundos donde vivir era intenso, una aventura tras otra, donde podía sentirme libre y volvía a ser feliz.

It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while.

No matter what time of day or amount of work to be done, someone with Tahiti could close his eyes and the reality of moody lawnmowers, scruffy lawns, threats of termination of employment would recede and in seconds he'd simply be in Tahiti, stark naked and drinking from a coconut, aware only of the percussion of the wind and girlish sighs of the ocean. (Few

They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.

Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours.

Kupenda KWAME ALEXANDER I have never been a slave Yet, I know I am whipped I have never escaped underground Yet, the night knows my journey I have never been to Canada Yet I've crossed your border If I were a poet in love I'd say that with you I have found that new place Where romance is just a beginning And freedom is our end.

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

Guns may shoot and knives may carve, but we won't wear your silly scarves!

La libertà ha sempre un prezzo.

Si certains lieux publics avaient survécu aux répressions du régime, soit c'était pour nous laisser un espace de liberté, soit c'était de l'ignorance.

Le régime avait compris qu'une personne qui sortait de chez elle en se demandant: est-ce que mon pantalon est assez long? est-ce que mon foulard est à sa place? est-ce que mon maquillage se voir? est-ce qu'ils vont me fouetter? ne se demandait plus: où est ma liberté de pensée? où est ma liberté de parole? ma vie, est-elle vivable? que se passe-t-il dans les prisons politiques?

But as far as your virginity is concerned... Now that you are married and divorced, it's normal that you're no longer a virgin! You can make love with whomever you want, without anyone knowing! You know! There's no meter down here!

How could a nation built upon 'Give me liberty or give me death,' 'all men are created equal,' and 'of the people, by the people, for the people' have ended up waging a shameful, disgraceful war against a people who had done us no harm nor ever would or could?" he wrote.

She told them that the peace and freedom promised by the nguy and their American controllers was illusory. Their country was at war and would remain at war until the invaders and traitors were gone. The real Vietnam would rise she said. It would be united. She envisioned a future where the free Vietnamese people worked together to improve life for all.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Out of the montage of accusations and sly traps written in their collective expressions, one face stood out clearly from all the rest. What was the remark the man had made? Oh, yes, he remembered it now. "I am completely impartial, Dr. Billings," the man had said. "I merely see to it that you teachers say nothing which might threaten our freedom of speech!

Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.

I am spiritually free when my spiritual and emotional state of being is healthy. I am spiritually free when I am emotionally well-balanced and when I desire to be a faithful, hopeful, and loving person. I am spiritually unfree when my negative emotions and temptations have gotten the better of me, when I am too angry, sad, tempted, or scared to think straight.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom

His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.