Quotes About Freedom

Pero nuestros actos no esperan ser llamados; saltan hacia un porvenir que no está prefigurado en ninguna parte.

ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito. La cosa paradossale è che mi accorsi di questa deficienza proprio nel momento in cui scoprivo la mia individualità: la mia pretesa al'universale fin allora mi era apparsa ovvi, e invece, ecco che diveniva un tratto di carattere. Simone si interessa di tutto. Mi trovavo delimitata dal mio rifiuto dei limiti.

To exist genuinely is not to deny this spontaneous movement of my transcendence, but only to refuse to lose myself in it.

O homem é livre; mas ele encontra a lei na sua própria liberdade.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman

To want to prohibit a man from error is to forbid him to fulfill his own existence, it is to deprive him of life.

Their behavior is defined and can be judged only within this given situation, and it is possible that in this situation, limited like every human situation, they realize a perfect assertion of their freedom. But once there appears a possibility of liberation, it is resignation of freedom not to exploit the possibility, a resignation which implies dishonesty and which is a positive fault.

Ser libre es lanzarse en el mundo sin cálculo, sin apuestas, es definir uno mismo toda apuesta, toda medida.

Let us live before asking us to justify our existence

Benim olan tek gerçek, edimlerimdir.

Y, ¿ante los ojos de quién mi conducta es fuga, si para mí es libre elección de un fin?

erkeÄŸin tanr?lar? göÄŸün öylesine ?rak bir köÅŸesindedirler ki, gerçekte, tanr? falan yoktur onun için: küçük k?zsa, insan yüzlü tanr?lar aras?nda yaÅŸar.

Every authoritarian party regards thought as a danger and reflection as a crime.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Society is the cave. The way out is solitude.

What should he do? It is simple. If he can escape from the grip of the people who wield the whip, he must run away. If he could have evaded his tormentors in the first place, he should have.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusions and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

L'esclave est celui à qui il n'est proposé aucun bien comme but de ses fatigues, sinon la simple existence. Il doit alors ou être détaché ou tombé au niveau végétatif

Those who are lacking in goodwill or who remain adolescent are never free under any form of society.

As for us, we are nailed in place, free only to direct our gaze, subject to necessity. A blind mechanism, which takes no account of the degree of spiritual perfection, continually tosses people and throws some of them at the foot of the Cross. It depends only on them to keep—or not—their eyes turned towards God through the shaking. It is not that the providence of God is absent. It is by His providence that God willed necessity as a blind mechanism.

The plant exercises no control, no choice in the affair of its own growth. We, though, are like a plant that can choose whether or not to expose itself to the light.