Quotes About Freedom

Por donde sea que el estandarte de la libertad y la independencia se haya desplegado o se vaya a desplegar, ahí estarán su corazón, sus bendiciones y sus plegarias. Pero no irán a ultramar en busca de monstruos que destruir. Desearán la libertad y la independencia de todos, pero sólo serán paladines y justificadores de sí mismos.

The local men who cruise with other men told me that everyone understood they were free to do whatever they liked, and without hassle from the authorities, if under-eighteens were not involved, to the extent that those who preferred adolescent rent boys are known to travel to Beirut or Istanbul, where word on the street is that they are available in abundance (for the right price).

We're not fanatics and criminals like those from the 5th Corps. We all bow, go to mosque, and respect the Koran. We don't need an Islamic state under Alija Izetbegovic. Whether my sister will wear a veil is up to her to decide and not up to some stupid imam."8

Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

I am an aristocrat: I love liberty, I hate equality.

The limitation of liberty is justified only when it is necessary for liberty itself, to prevent an invasion of freedom that would be still worse.

Because even before I got there, New York had become a symbol of my liberated self, and I knew that it was in a kind of turbulence that that self must attempt to find itself.

The Ethereal Angels—these are the artists, the poets, the dancers. .

even the heart rebels-finally against its own anarchy. And that's the most powerful rebellion.

Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then [in 1964 becoming politically engaged at age 15] and I think it's threatened now.

The Light of Liberty is all-consuming because it is the natural way of the soul. It is the highest form of Love."

Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

Debt is used to control the masses and it is those who stay out of its way and avoid at any cost that will find themselves beginning to succeed financially.

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

Ar fi trebuit s? fiu altceva, ceva ce nu simte nici un fel de durere. La noapte, reflect? el, frem?tând de anticipaÈ›ie, voi fugi de durere. ?i nu m? voi mai întoarce niciodat?.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get.

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

Live as you want and you shall be at peace.