Quotes About Freedom

Man exists .For him it is not a question of wondering whether his presence in the world is useful, wheter life is worth the trouble of being lived. These questions make no sense. It is a matter of knowing whether he wants to live and under what conditions.

As virgens que o homem não dominou, as mulheres velhas que escaparam ao seu poder, são mais facilmente do que as outras encaradas como feiticeiras.

Et en fait tout homme qui a eu de vraies amours, de vraies révoltes, de vrais désirs, de vraies volontés, sait bien qu'il n'a besoin d'aucune garantie étrangère por être sûr de ses buts; leur certitude vient de son propre élan.

Si la mujer es prosaica, casera, bajamente utilitaria, se debe a que le imponen que consagre su existencia a preparar alimentos y limpiar deyecciones. No será de ahí de donde podrá extraer el sentido de la grandeza.

Não se parcela a liberdade: a mulher livre sê-lo-á amiúde contra o homem. Mesmo a Bela Adormecida no bosque pode despertar com desprazer, pode não reconhecer em quem a acorda um Príncipe Encantado, pode não sorrir.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

What is beyond doubt is that until now women's possibilities have been stifled and lost to humanity, and in her and everyone's interest it is high time she be left to take her own chances.

But it is not solipsistic, since the individual is define only by her relationship to the world and to other individuals; she exists only by transcending herself, and her freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others.

human transcendence must cope with the same problem: it has to found itself, though it is prohibited from ever fulfilling itself.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito

I pensieri vanno e vengono a loro piacere, nella nostra testa. Non lo si fa apposta a credere a ciò che si crede.

Ik kóós het bestaan niet, maar ik besta. Een ongerijmdheid die verantwoordelijk voor zichzelf is, dát ben ik.

During the nineteenth century, woman in her turn is freed from nature; she wins control of her body. Relieved of a great number of reproductive servitudes, she can take on the economic roles open to her, roles that would ensure her control over her own person.

Une liberté qui ne s'emploie qu'à nier la liberté doit être niée.

Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially protect liege-woman and will be in charge of justifying her existence: along with the economic risk, she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help.

Das schimmste aber, wenn man ein Gefängnis aus unsichtbaren Mauern bewohnt, ist, dass man sich der Schranken nicht bewusst wird, die den Horizont versperren.

No soy una cosa, sino espontaneidad que desea, que ama, que anhela, que actúa.

Exister, c'est oser se jeter dans le monde. »

Let us beware lest our lack of imagination impoverish the future; the future is only an abstraction for us; each of us secretly laments the absence in it of what was; but tomorrow's humankind will live the future in its flesh and in its freedom; that future will be its present, and humankind will in turn prefer it;

D'improvviso, l'avvenire esisteva; mi avrebbe cambiata in un'altra che avrebbe detto io e non sarebbe più stata me.

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.

Sovyetler birliÄŸinde evlilik devrimin ilk y?llar?nda yaln?zca eÅŸlerin özgürlüÄŸüne baÄŸl? bireyler aras? bir sözleÅŸme say?lm??t?r; bugünse devletin eÅŸlere yüklediÄŸi bir hizmet say?lmaktad?r. Aranan ÅŸey, bireysel mutluluÄŸu saÄŸlamak deÄŸil, kad?nla erkeÄŸin cinsel ve ekonomik birliÄŸini topluluk ç?kar? doÄŸrultusunda aÅŸmakt?r.

Yet, there is hardly a sadder virtue than resignation. It transforms into phantoms and contingent reveries projects which had at the beginning been set up as will and freedom.