Quotes About Freedom

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

Yank: Sure! Lock me up! Put me in a cage! Dat's de on'y answer yuh know. G'wan, lock me up!Policeman: What you been doin'?Yank: Enough to gimme life for! I was born, see? Sure, dat's de charge. Write it in de blotter. I was born, get me!

Não nos é apenas dito que Jesus é o Filho de Deus; não apenas nos tornamos beneficiários da sua redenção; somos convidados a morrer a sua morte e a viver a Sua Vida com a liberdade e a dignidade de participantes. E aqui está o aspecto mais maravilhoso: nós entramos na história sem nos tornarmos o centro da história.

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Freedom is a difficult burden to bear in an absurd world.

Without having to confine my dreams to the destiny outlined in one's name and the expectations bestowed during one's naming, I was left free to embrace the natural turns of my character and to determine my own future, drawing from the deepest well on unnamed possibilities.

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Tyranny and imagination are archenemies.

There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.

As Maia turned to go, hardly believing that there could be such happiness, she heard a loud splash. Miss Minton was leaning over the side, watching the parcel she had held on her knees floating away downriver. "What was that?" asked Maia. Miss Minton straightened herself. If you must know," she said, "it was my corset.

What do you mean to do with Maia when you do find her?" the professor asked that night. "Take her back to the Keminskys and never let her out of my sight again," said Miss Minton. "She may not find it easy." "Why on earth not? The Keminskys are the kindest people in the world." "Yes. But she has tasted freedom.

Knowing it was her last night on the Arabella , Maia fought against sleep. She must remember it all--the lapping of the water against the side of the boat, the white moths, the fireflies… Finn, too, was awake. "When we're grown up I'll come back for you, I promise. No one can stop us then.

When we're grown up I'll come back for you, I promise. No one can stop us then.

He meant that the dead must be allowed to move about freely inside us, they musn't be encapsulated, made finite by their prejudices

Freiheit ist kein abstrakter Wert, sondern eine institutionalisierte Praxis, die Kategorien wie den Willen, die Wahl, das Begehren und die Gefühle prägt.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

wandering off to bars. "I

Life is but a window,it will always be our option to chose the weather.

All of us, gay and non-gay, who share the visions of America as a nation that believes that all people have the right to be both different and equal, and that without real and sufficient justification, government may not compel people to give up their differences in order to be treated equally...