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Quotes About Freedom

This sounds like positive social change, right? Anything the revs are against is surely a good thing. Fine-looking women, smoking and drinking and gambling and doing whatever they like? Sounds good!
~ Anthony Bourdain
A vida de cozinheiro era uma vida de aventura, saque, pilhagem e rock'n'roll sem parar, com um desprezo displicente por toda a moral convencional. A vida do outro lado do muro parecia-me muito boa.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I wanted to be apart from everything I grew up with. In short, I wanted to be elsewhere.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
~ Anthony Burgess
What I do I do because I like to do.
~ Anthony Burgess
Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
~ Anthony Burgess
When the State withers, humanity flowers.
~ Anthony Burgess
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
~ Anthony Burgess
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
~ Anthony Burgess
The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.
~ Anthony Burgess
I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti.
~ Anthony Burgess
And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.
~ Anthony Burgess
To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.
~ Anthony Burgess
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.
~ Anthony Burgess
Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me like feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blitzen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power.
~ Anthony Burgess
Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.
~ Anthony Burgess
They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly—that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.
~ Anthony Burgess
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
~ Anthony Burgess
Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
~ Anthony Burgess
The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
~ Anthony Burgess
A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
~ Anthony Burgess
El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condición humana.
~ Anthony Burgess
Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo
~ Anthony Burgess
Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.
~ Anthony Burgess