Quotes About Freedom

punk placed no premium on technique or production values.

I MUST CREATE A SYSTEM OR BE ENSLAVED BY ANOTHER MAN'S." —WILLIAM BLAKE

punk rock doesn't have to mean hardcore or one style of music or just singing the same lyrics," he said. "It can mean freedom and going crazy and being personal with your art.

The greatest thing about punk rock for me, as an outsider, was that the concept that you had to be allowed in was no longer valid. You could be operating in a vacuum, you could be as fucked up an individual as you cared to be, and if you did something of worth, all these external conditions were immaterial.

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place.

Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.

At any rate it is impossible to live intelligently as a member of a minority group in a nation that was founded every bit as firmly on enslavement and butchery as on ideals of liberty and brotherhood and not feel, at least every once in a while, that you can no more take for granted the continued tolerance of your existence here than you ought take the prosperity or freedom you enjoy.

Kornblum was, nevertheless, unable to resist offering that final criticism to his erstwhile pupil on his performance that night. "Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.

All of the dissatisfactions he had felt in his practice of the art form he had stumbled across within a week of his arrival in America, the cheap conventions, the low expectations among publishers, readers, parents, and educators, the spatial constraints that he had been struggling against in the pages of Luna Moth, seemed capable of being completely overcome, exceeded, and escaped. The Amazing Cavalieri was going to break free, forever, of the nine little boxes.

I charge you as I was charged. Don't waste your life. Don't allow your body's weakness to be a weakness of your spirit. Repay your debt of freedom. You have the key.

Such men roamed the world acting, always anonymously, to procure the freedom of others, whether physical or metaphysical, emotional

To slip, like the Escapist, free of the entangling chain of reality and the straitjacket of physical laws.

Never worry about what you're escaping from, he said. Worry about what you're escaping to.

He doesn't just fight it. He frees the world of it. He frees people, see?

It was never just a question of escape. It was also a question of transformation.

Such men feel imprisoned by invisible chains—walled in, sewn up in layers of batting. For them, the final feat of autoliberation was all too foreseeable.

Sarát levetkÅ'ztetni gátlástalan cselekedet volt, szinte vandalizmus, mint szabadon ereszteni egy állatkert lakóit vagy felrobbantani egy gátat.

Take care—there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

If I could work without the pants on," he said, "I would go naked.

In this country, there are two million people in prison. Two million. If the system gets it wrong one percent of the time, that is twenty thousand innocent people in jail. Lower it to half a percent and you're still at ten thousand people. This is what keeps me up at night. Why I always say, the scariest client is the innocent man. Because there is so much at stake.

The intrusion of the government into our lives is pervasive. Where do we make a stand? I'm making mine right here.

Encontraré la salida.