Quotes About Freedom

Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.

My friend gave me an opportunity to be bad, that is, free.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

You can't take the sky from me.

Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, took the midnight train going anywhere... Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit, took the midnight train going anywhere...

Although the release was heartbreaking for the Adamsons, they were mindful that she had been born free.

Forgiveness is not about letting someone off the hook. It's about freeing yourself from the pain and anger of the past.

To achieve happiness, one must be willing to let go of what no longer serves them.

I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself

Freedom was an illusion even when one's instincts were good.

You can do anything you want in this world," J.C. said. "No, you can't," Emily said modestly. "Why, sure you can. And if you don't you'll never know the consequences. You won't be leading any kind of life at all.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

the thing was, not to go home.

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Siempre tuve miedo de dormir antes que ella, sin saber la causa. Aun adorándola, era algo así como dar la espalda a un enemigo. No podía soportar la idea de dormirme y dejarla a ella en la sombra, lúcida, absolutamente libre, viva aún

la mañana ha hecho eso que hacen todas las mañanas cuando llegan, prometernos unas horas distintas, nuevas, libres de que haceres y pesares. Como saben todas las huerfanitas pecosas, el sol brillará mañana. Luego el día te recuerda que sigues sin tener padres, pero oye, el sol brillará mañana.

rojo era símbolo de libertad, caridad y salud, y el amarillo de justicia, virtud y clemencia.

Nosotros arrastramos los pies en ríos de sangre seca, almas que se pegaron a la tierra por amor, no queremos otros mundos que el de la libertad y esta palabra no la palabreamos porque sabemos hace mucha muerte que se habla enamorado y no del amor, se habla claro, no de la claridad, se habla libre, no de la libertad.

Los tres pilares de una perfecta obra de ingeniería dedicada a un único fin: esquivar la insoslayable verdad de la carne. Que es una prisión que se desmorona.

No pueden hablar de democracia quienes se niegan a defender la autonomía individual frente a supuestos valores colectivos que no son sino la sujeción a dogmas y a ideologías autoritarias.

Banned books always smell suspicious