Quotes About Freedom

It has always been my opinion, you know, that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again;

Aprì la valigia sul letto altissimo e, sfilandosi le rigide scarpe da città con un senso di liberazione, cominciò a disfare i bagagli; nei recessi della sua mente c'era la convinzione profondamente femminile che il modo migliore per dar sollievo a una mente turbata è mettersi un paio di scarpe comode.

She meant to savor each turn of her traveling, loving the road and the trees and the houses and the small ugly towns, teasing herself with the notion that she might take it into her head to stop just anywhere and never leave again.

insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it;

It has always been my opinion that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.

insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it . . .

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!

To be worshiped is not freedom.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.

chi è libero non ha bisogno di negare la libertà ad altri

Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I'll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I hope it doesn't get worse. But even if it gets worse, I won't regret it. I would rather be dead than live in the factory anymore. Not much difference as they just want you to work to death anyway. And you can't even think there or talk. but I have to think. I have to talk. I have to talk about what I think.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will." Sigmund Freud wrote to Albert Einstein

Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.

This reliance on puns gives Freud an interpretative freedom which might often be considered licence.

There is far less freedom and arbitrariness in mental life, however, than we are inclined to assume - there may even be none at all.