Quotes About Freedom

We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted." I

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland…those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be neither oppressor nor oppressed.

Then we would go to the living room and sit on the blue couches, and Cat Stevens would sing on the record player, "I have my freedom / I can make my own rules.

Aussi, dans la démocratie, les pauvres sont-ils souverains à l'exclusion des riches, parce qu'ils sont les plus nombreux, et que l'avis de la majorité fait loi. Voilà donc un des caractères distinctifs de la liberté ; et les partisans de la démocratie ne manquent pas d'en faire une condition indispensable de l'État.

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it

En todo Estado es preciso distinguir dos cosas: la cantidad y la calidad de los ciudadanos. Por calidad entiendo la libertad, la riqueza, las luces, el nacimiento; por cantidad entiendo la preponderancia numérica. La calidad puede estar en una parte de los elementos políticos, y la cantidad encontrarse en otra; y así las gentes de nacimiento oscuro

É também prazeroso o que não é resultado da coação, porquanto esta se opõe à natureza. Consequentemente, aquilo que é ditado pela força da necessidade é doloroso, e daí o dito tão acertado: Tudo o que se faz por força da necessidade é amargo.

How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?

Well … everything gets old after a while. I personally get a little sick of wrecking my liver at The Lion for the privilege of tricking with some guy whose lover is in L.A. for the weekend.

we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

Queers doing cowboy dancing. Who would've thunk it? Kids who grew up in Galveston and Tucson and Modesto, performing the folk dances of their homeland finally, finally with the partner of their choice.

I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine. What? Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.

The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.