Quotes About Freedom

There was something ironic about that. Amma comforting Chithra Aunty. Yet I understood it. Chithra Aunty was free to cry. We couldn't, for if we started we would never stop.

How come no one tells a rabbit to settle down? It's completely kosher for all of you to "fuck like bunnies" – in fact, it's part of the job description.

I thought it was a little like writing, words freed from the mind, from imagination, free at long last. I did not think this a good recommendation for writing: to compare it to skull stabbing, but perhaps it is a version of that.

People have long been willing to trade freedoms for economic prosperity, which is where a compelling link to the promises (though not generally delivered realities) of neoliberalism becomes visible.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and freeYe publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets.

a man the South African government evidently thought too dangerous to be free, but also by then too prominent to be killed.

I am the me I choose to be.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Dance like there is nobody watching. Sing like there is nobody listening. Live like there is no tommorow.

EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight. Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free." Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.

Per quanto infinita potesse essere la notte che mi circondava da tutti i lati, io ero e restavo l'unico capitano della mia anima. E la mia anima era libera perché io lo volevo.

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.

Te amaba como si me pertenecieras, sin recordar que nadie pertenece a nadie, que poseer algo, cualquier cosa, es un vano padecimiento.

Moriré? —Necesariamente, no —respondía Magush—. Puedes vivir sin un destino —Pero hasta los perros tienen destino —protesté yo. —Los perros no pueden evitarlo: son obedientes.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.