Quotes About Freedom

Having something pinned down can have a focusing effect, where a blank canvas with its unlimited options—while it sounds liberating—can have a paralyzing effect.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive, Live in a swamp and be three dimensional, Put a live chicken in your underwear, Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to break the rules.

Commitmentphobics tend to resist being defined by a job or a career, even when they are successful. An example of this is the lawyer/writer who teaches and plays in a jazz band weekends. The bottom line is that they always want to feel that the possibility exists that they can get out from any job situation, should they want to. Some want to fairly often.

Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.

La distinción entre una mujer que elige controlar su fertilidad y el gobierno que elige limitar su fertilidad es fundamental y la gente con frecuencia parece perder de vista esta diferencia.

Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 13:39

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. —Abraham Lincoln

Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, "reserv[ing] and set[ting] apart for the settlement of the negroes . . . the islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida," to be subdivided "so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground.

Capitalism set out as the opponent of privilege and the champion of freedom," Rauschenbusch wrote, "it has ended by being the defender of privilege and the intrenchment of autocracy.

Rallying to the cry of "free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men

let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind's cage-door… —KEATS

You can't scrub everything," says Lorenzo. "Information gets what it wants, and it wants to be free.

And the benefits of selflessness go beyond silencing our inner critic. When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they're just costumes with zippers.

Most of us arrive in our fifties feeling that the cage has gotten smaller. What's actually shrunk is our mindset. We're in a prison of our own making. Once we discover we can keep on learning later in life, that mindset shifts. The cage vanishes. This changes everything.

I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.

es mejor provocar un estallido, por enorme que sea, que estar en deuda con el mundo por preservarte».

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.

Enlightenment's motto, he proclaimed, is "Dare to understand!" and its foundational demand is freedom of thought and speech.

And the story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity—to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being. For it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.