Quotes About Freedom

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.

Let me tell you something, Mr. L.A. I've been to a place where it doesn't matter what they do to you, where nothing can hurt you. I've been there and back." "Everybody's been to Disneyland, so what?

hang out on the surf beaches even though I didn't know how to surf.

a nolle pros—meaning no charges were ever filed against him. Allen was simply released.

These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

Eventually we hope to drive among the animals—just as they do in African game parks—but, for now, sit back and enjoy the self-guided tour.

They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing

You always have an option. There is always something you can do. You are never without choice.

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused

You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.

We stand out, we strike out, we do our own thing, go our own way. The herd of independent minds, somebody called it.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.

He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.

I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go

I know you. I've seen it. And, knowing all, I release you.

We all tried [to be open and free]. I'm not sure the organism is fully capable.

Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind

if you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling along cliff tops without finding the courage.

Ouspensky was saying that hell on earth is life as we have always lived it, and heaven on earth is breaking free of our long-standing patterns.