Quotes About Freedom

These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and especially against the lethal temptation to exchange freedom for security: a bargain that invariably ends up with the surrender of both.

Morrer odiando-os — liberdade era isso.

Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelaran, y sin rebelarse no podran tomar conciencia.

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.

La guerra es paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza.

Thoughcrime doesn't pull death; toughtcrime IS death

La libertad consiste en decir que dos y dos son cuatro.

Para el futuro o para el pasado, para la época en que se pueda pensar libremente, en que los hombres sean distintos unos de otros y no vivan solitarios... Para cuando la verdad exista y lo que se haya hecho no pueda ser deshecho: Desde esta época de uniformidad, de este tiempo de soledad, la Edad del Gran Hermano, la época del doblepensar... ¡muchas felicidades!

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

LA GUERRE C'EST LA PAIX LA LIBERTÉ C'EST L'ESCLAVAGE L'IGNORANCE C'EST LA FORCE

Siempre aquellos ojos y aquella voz que te envolvía. Dormido o despierto, trabajando o comiendo, en casa o en la calle, en el baño o en la cama... no había escapatoria. Lo único que te pertenecía eran los pocos centímetros cúbicos del interior de tu cráneo.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.

Mais, à tout prendre, les animaux trouvaient plaisir à ces célébrations. Ils étaient confortés dans l'idée d'être leurs propres maîtres, après tout, et ainsi d'Å"uvrer à leur propre bien.

But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.

In the past every tyranny was sooner or later overthrown, or at least resisted, because of 'human nature', which as a matter of course desired liberty. But we cannot be at all certain that 'human nature' is constant. It may be just as possible to produce a breed of men who do not wish for liberty as to produce a breed of hornless cows.

The unwinding brings freedom, more than the world has ever granted, and to more kinds of people than ever before—freedom to go away, freedom to return, freedom to change your story, get your facts, get hired, get fired, get high, marry, divorce, go broke, begin again, start a business, have it both ways, take it to the limit, walk away from the ruins, succeed beyond your dreams and boast about it, fail abjectly and try again.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them

he explained how anxious he had been to earn his freedom.

Como pode chamar a si mesmo um homem livre, quando sua própria fraqueza o trouxe à condição em que se acha? Se um homem tem dentro de si a alma de um escravo, não é exatamente nisso que se transforma, não obstante seu nascimento, assim como a água procura o seu nível?

We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.

That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.

How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this?