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Quotes About Freedom

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
Uvjerio sam se, naime, o neoborivoj ?injenici da nijedan narod na svijetu, kraj svih ljubaznih, praznih rije?i, filozofiranja o protivnom, još nikada nije stekao svoju slobodu dobro?udnim brbljanjem i moralnim uvjeravanjem: nepromjenjivi je zakon da sve revolucije koje žele imati uspjeha moraju po?eti u krvi, bez obzira na to što ?e biti poslije.
~ Mark Twain
Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it.
~ Mark Twain
to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.
~ Mark Twain
The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
~ Mark Twain
Me estoy dando cuenta de que me da igual bañarme si nadie me lo prohíbe.
~ Mark Twain
whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.
~ Mark Twain
rad - ono što ?iniš pod moranje, a igra sve ono na šta nisi primoran.
~ Mark Twain
Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover.
~ Mark Twain (Samuel Clements)
What keeps the drinker drinking is the certainty that she can stop whenever she wants. It never would have occurred to me that stopping the pathetic little bit of drinking I did would have mattered.
~ Mark Vonnegut
I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. It's probably not even real.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
He loved more than anything to fly. His sole conflict was with gravity.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
How then do you fly from that path?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
L'Amore è tutto! - Libertà , obietta poi quello brutto. - Amore e Libertà sono tutt'uno. - E Matrimonio? Là dove l'Amore, accettando la fine della Libertà, garantisce il Suo disfacimento.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
In order to escape then, we have to remember we cannot ponder all paths but must decode only those necessary to get out.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
and I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
He is clearly exhausted, dehydrated, and perhaps a little unable to believe he has actually escaped the maze.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
For as we know, there cannot be an escape.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
~ Markus Zusak
Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
~ Markus Zusak
We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.
~ Markus Zusak
I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
~ Markus Zusak