Quotes About Freedom

I walked with nowhere particular to go, and nowhere I had to be.

I love the fact that every day I get to reimagine who I want to be.

Look outwards, Alice," Margery would say, her voice carrying on the breeze. "Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you—nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things." For

I just...can't bear the thought of you staying around here forever. He swallowed. You're too bright. Too interesting. He looked away from me. You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?" The assistant shrugs. "Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.

Maybe you have to think about all the things about your old life that you didn't enjoy and say, 'Okay, so here is an opportunity to start again. Perfect freedom. No ties. Maybe this is the dream.' Maybe one day you will even be happier than you were.

Sometimes I feel I could stay in the woods for ever.' He nodded. 'I often think,' he said, 'that when you're out here at daybreak you can pretend you're the only person in the world.

Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

I thought I could live as I wanted, long as I didn't hurt nobody. But I've had time to think in here—and I worked it out. You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they . . . well, they squash you like a bug.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom forever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own complete emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms.

To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines." ~from the dedication

No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while.

No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Hey, Izzy, boy, let's go chase a sunset.

The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

I am not mad here, but clear and calm. I am not transformed, but allowed to be wholly myself.I am isolated, but have never felt more connected to people. I am not imprisoned, but free. I am not cut off from my family and my roots, but am brought back to them. I am not living alone with dogs, but permitting my dogs to lead me somewhere I need to go, and it has been a great trip. We have more distance to travel together, I'm sure, before we are through.

I now walk into the wild.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.