Quotes About Freedom

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

You didn't think it was possible for a woman to wander the streets in the same spirit and manner as a man. A female pedestrian was subject to constant disruptions: stares, comments, catcalls, gropes. A woman was raised to be always on guard: Was this guy walking too close? Was that guy following her? How, then, could she ever relax enough to experience the loss of sense of self, the joy of pure being that was the ideal of true flânerie?

What do dogs think when they see someone cry? Bred to be comforters, they comfort us. But how puzzling human unhappiness must be to them. We who can fill our dishes any time and with as much food as we like, who can go outside whenever we wish, and run free - we who have no master constantly needling to be pleased, or obeyed.

It's always good to start off anything by breaking a rule.

But how puzzling human unhappiness must be to them. We who can fill our dishes any time and with as much food as we like, who can go outside whenever we wish, and run free—we who have no masters constantly needing to be pleased or obeyed— WTF?

She believed that, in our culture, at least, people were much freer than they thought they were and had more options than they seemed willing to acknowledge.

She swiftly disabused us of certain notions acquired at school. America is the land of equal opportunity. All men are brothers. The best things in life are free.

twas somewhat about good days falling to wise folk, but the best days of all falling to those who dare to be unwise.

Don't do it if it's not something you want to do, Marta. These matters can't possibly look the same to you, standing in the midst of life, as they do to me. You should understand that you mustn't do it for my sake, but for your own.

El amor no crea regla alguna, las rompe todas Sigrid Undset

She felt as if she had spent her childhood here, running, lying back, pulling out the stamens of honeysuckle to drink their juice.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

Only recently had he realized the way books could give a person wings.

seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.

El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal.

Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

The moral of the story: Every day is a special day. A tear in your chiffon? So what! A food stain on that satin ruffle? Big deal! A little paint spatter on that velvet blazer merely adds to your overall patina. When women ask me for fashion advice, I always say the same thing: "Go home and throw out all your 'work' clothes!" If you always dress as if you are going to a party or a Bowie concert—or a Black Eyed Peas concert—you will always have more fun.

A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.

for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power.

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In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.

No hay libertad sin justicia