Quotes About Freedom

The freedom to apprehend aesthetic value may rise from class conflict, but the value is not identical with the freedom, even if it cannot be achieved without that apprehension. Aesthetic value is by definition engendered by an interaction between artists, an influencing that is always an interpretation.

I think that the self, in its quest to be free and solitary, ultimately reads with one aim only: to confront greatness. That confrontation scarcely masks the desire to join greatness, which is the basis of the aesthetic experience once called the Sublime: the quest for a transcendence of limits.

The central image for freedom in Lucretius is the clinamen or sudden "swerve." As the atoms in the cosmos fall downward and outward they capriciously swerve, and this change in direction provides for our freedom of will. Last poems, as I read them, execute clinamens in regard to a previous poetic career. They assert a final freedom for the imagination

Ho Chi Minn's dictum: "Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Occasionally, give yourself permission to let something fall by the wayside—without feeling guilty!

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in.

Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?

I can tell you. In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to.

but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu

Time spent indoors was time wasted.

Uncle Jack, I can't live in a place that I don't agree with and that doesn't agree with me.

She printed DEMOCRACY in large letters. 'Democracy,' she said. 'Does anybody have a definition?' 'Us,' somebody said. I raised my hand, remembering an old campaign slogan Atticus had once told me about. 'What do you think it means, Jean Louise?' '"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!",' I quoted.

rights for all, special privileges for none!",' I quoted.

I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants.

In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to.

Seni seviyorum. Nas?l istersen.

he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred….

Nowadays he's got more than he ever had in his life, he has everything but breeding, he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred. . . 

that Tom had a good chance of going free, or at least of having a new trial.

That's the difference between America and Germany. We are a democracy and Germany is a dictatorship. Dictator-ship," she said. "Over here we don't believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Pre-ju-dice

Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.