Quotes About Freedom

Lucidity is the only vice which makes us free—free in a desert.

Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.

Man is free, save for his depths.

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

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

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

So long as man is protected by madness, he functions and flourishes; but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.

Of all the bonds which link us to things, there is not one which fails to slacken and dissolve under the influence of suffering, which frees us from everything except the obsession of ourselves and the sensation of being irrevocably individual. Suffering is solitude hypostatized as essence.

Wisdom? Never was any period so free of it—in other words, never was man more himself: a being refractory to wisdom.

The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Încetezi s? exiÈ™ti în orice regim, religios sau politic, care suprim? erezia, voinÈ›a de a merge contra dogmei sau a curentului.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger. Society tolerates you only if you are successfully servile and despotic; it is a prison without guards – but from which you do not escape without dying.

Perdoa-se tudo, contanto que você tenha uma profissão, um subtítulo sob seu nome, um selo sobre seu nada. Ninguém tem a audácia de gritar: "Não quero fazer nada!"; se é mais indulgente com um assassino do que com um espírito liberado dos atos. Multiplicando as possibilidades de submeter-se, abdicando de sua liberdade, matando em si mesmo o vagabundo, foi assim que o homem refinou sua escravidão e submeteu-se aos fantasmas.

Of all those who suffered a long period of slavery, they alone have succeeded in resisting the charms of abulia.

Una poesía digna de ese nombre comienza por la experiencia de la fatalidad. Sólo los malos poetas son libres.

Liberty is the daughter of authority properly understood. For to be free is not to do what one pleases; it is to be the master of oneself, it is to know how to act within reason and to do one's duty.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

Em prometia no dir mai res, no fer mai res que els altres poguessin emmagatzemar al seu cap per retreure-m'ho el dia que els donés la gana. No volia quedar mai més enterrat, immobilitzat per un munt de paraules, convertit en un retrat que em feien els altres i que jo no podía esborrar.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live upon my knees.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hand but a rifle in your fist

The one who wants to be an eagle that flies, who wants to be a worm that crawls but does not scream when someone step on it "

And falling's just another way to fly.