Quotes About Freedom

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK. Don't worry about resale value on the house.

Going to school on the Planet really is doing nothing. You just sit in the classes someone else tells you to sit in. You learn things you didn't choose to learn from people you didn't choose to teach you. Then one day they tell you it's over and you have to go out there and learn the world for real.

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Perhaps they had been slaves to the emperor for so long that they no longer had a spark of freedom that could be ignited. Augustus Caesar and his successors had cleverly wooed them, turning defiant citizens into submissive slaves, all in exchange for Roman peace, beautiful roads, free food, and entertainment.

The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.

riding in an airboat is like being vaulted onto a plain of ice, an overpowered airplane propeller strapped to your butt.

I think if you're standing on thin ice anyway, why not dance?

The fate and future of social media news channel is in deep darkness the way the atrocity has increased of Govt and the manner in which free journalists are being framed in false charges. Mainstream media is enjoying bootlicking.

Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

No more Guernicas, no more Auschwitzes, no more Hiroshimas, no more Setifs. Hooray! But what about the impossibility of living, what about this stifling mediocrity and this absence of passion? What about the jealous fury in which the rankling of never being ourselves drives us to imagine that other people are happy? What about this feeling of never really being inside your own skin?

I refuse to be called by any name, and suddenly, beneath the unnameable, I discover the wealth of lived experience, inexpressible poetry, the preconditions of supersession.

Henceforward, no revolution will be worth the name if it does not at the very least imply the radical elimination of all hierarchy.

Pour le pouvoir, l'ennemi numéro UN, c'est la créativité individuelle s'irradiant librement.

Religious beliefs concealed humans from themselves, a Bastille walling them up in a pyramidal world with God at the summit and the king just below. Alas,

The desire to live is a political decision. Who wants a world where the guarantee of freedom from starvation means the risk of death from boredom?

the more rigidly constructed your game is, the more limited it will be.*

All freedoms need to be constricted, otherwise the result is infinite conflict and the triumph of the fittest.