Quotes About Freedom

The more prosperous and free that people become, the more their birth rate settles at around two children per woman with no coercion necessary.

fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one.

Getting richer is not the only or even the best way of getting happier. Social and political liberation is far more effective, says the political scientist Ronald Ingleheart: the big gains in happiness come from living in a society that frees you to make choices about your lifestyle – about where to live, who to marry, how to express your sexuality and so on.

Let's get the hell out of here.

I just don't understand why being vegetarian makes you any better than anyone else. What's with the big statements? It's just a choice, in a free society. I think so long as you know where your food's coming from, and you're happy with that, then you should be able to live your life without being judged.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite the opposite. God will let you do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, with whomever you want to do it, and as often as you want to do it. When was the last time God stopped you from doing anything?

Amare una persona è diverso dal volerla intrappolare, dal volere qualcosa che sia tuo e solo tuo. E' come tentare di abbracciare il tuo quadro preferito, come parlare o danzare con l'ora più perfetta della giornata, con il ricordo dell'albero più bello che hai mai visto.

Free Fallin' " by Tom Petty came on, so he turned it up, because everything's simpler when Tom Petty's on the radio. We're all just good girls who love our mamas, horses, and America, too, goddammit.

Benjamin Franklin]. Not only one of our nation's founding geniuses but a printer and publisher, too... He knew that to form the soul of America, one must control the presses.

Dante had done what so many writers could only imagine—turned poetry into a living power, and a living power was something no one could cage inside the covers of a book.

True love knows no constrains, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads its wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads its wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

We are very much like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to fly away. We have grown so accustomed to our faults that we can barely imagine what life would be like without them. The prospect of change makes us dizzy.

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How

The key to getting out of a bad relationship is being able to imagine something more fulfilling. --D. Travers Scott

Oh ! S'il avait pu partir, tout de suite, n'importe où, et ne jamais revenir, ne jamais écrire, ne jamais laisser savoir ce qu'il était devenu ! Mais non, il fallait rentrer, rentrer dans la maison paternelle et se coucher dans son lit

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

I get to live by myself in a tree, doing some bullshit job for no one? This is my dream, Stevie. This is my dream.

Campers screamed when they swam and played and sometimes simply for the sake of screaming.

That's why I can sleep anywhere now.

Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.