Quotes About Freedom

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.

The Giver has communicated himself in the gift of being in such a way that the creative act reaches to the core of the creature's freedom.

The act whereby God consummates the gift of being in the new creation that flows from the Word Incarnate's Paschal Mystery is love in a higher and more intimate sense than with any generosity bestowed in creating. It is the introduction of human freedom into the everlasting love-exchange of the Trinity itself.

Many of us wanted something more fundamental: freedom from "normal" life. Either we were inherently different, possibly on a cellular lever, and couldn't relate to "normal", or our notion of normal had been played or fucked with along the way. Whatever the reasons, "normal" didn't fit us and we didn't fit it. We had few options - and we would do virtually anything to obtain freedom from it.

Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

plus lastly, It shouldnt matter who you are (or) what your work place is. Self-defense is Self-defense. No one has the right to lay any pyshical abuse on "ANYONE .

Et ce ne sont pas seulement les bouches qui chantent, mais les mains, mais les pieds, mais les fesses, mais les sexes, et la créature tout entière qui se liquéfie en sons, voix et rythme.

it is the colonized man who wants to move forward, and the colonizer who holds things back.

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du désespoir.

Liberté mon seul pirate.

a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

We are Prisoners of this Body.We are Prisoners of this Mind. Who are we? On Realization, the Truth we will find!

We don't need to suffer,We don't have to cry.If only we question and Find out,Who am I?We can be blissful like a Bird in the Sky.

Your Name is only your Identity, not your Reality.Realize this Truth and from Misery, be Free!

To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.

any place you don't want to be is a prison.

Your job is to be free, not to carry around the so-called attainments or failures of the past.