Quotes About Freedom

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.

A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

I very much like this one :" For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything..For us who do it is merely an illusion..

Simt nevoia sa ies din mine si sa nu ma mai opresc,sa depasesc toate limitele care-au fost trecute vreodata,sa scap de sub tirania creierului.

Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified and provisional. There is an underlying polytheism in liberal democracy (call it an unconscious polytheism); conversely, every authoritarian regime partakes of a disguised monotheism.

Dup? ce-ai gustat dezam?git din otrava religiei, tov?r??ia muzicii te dezlipe?te de accidentele decep?iei.

A asculta vîntul ne dispenseaz? de poezie, este poezie.

Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space!

Živim samo zato što je u mojoj mo?i da umrem kad mi se prohte: bez ideje o samoubistvu, odavno bih se ubio.

L'uomo attenderà sempre l'avvento della giustizia; e, affinché trionfi, rinuncerà alla libertà, per poi rimpiangerla.

Elän ainoastaan siksi, että minun vallassani on kuolla silloin kun se minusta hyvältä tuntuu: ilman itsemurha- ajatusta olisin tappanut itseni aikoja sitten.

It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. If they did — without a word — what they do, we would take them for robots. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?

Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he remains a slave of the past or of the future.

If you love your independence, you must lend yourself, in order to protect it, to every turpitude; you must risk ignominy itself.

As serfs, these people built cathedrals; emancipated, they build only horrors.

Ne regarde ni en avant ni en arrière, regarde en toi-même, sans peur ni regret. Nul ne descend en soi tant qu'il demeure esclave du passé ou de l'avenir.

To be something – unconditional – is always a form of madness from which life – flower of fixed ideas – frees itself only to fade.

This world can take everything from us, can forbid us everything, but no one has the power to keep us from wiping ourselves out.

Expression diminishes you, impoverishes you, lifts weights off you: expression is loss of substance, and liberation.

Man is free—and sterile—only in the interval when the gods die; slave—and creative—only in the interval when, as tyrants, they flourish.