Quotes About Freedom

The Hawk in the Rain I drown in the drumming ploughland, I drag up Heel after heel from the swallowing of the earth's mouth, From clay that clutches my each step to the ankle With the habit of the dogged grave, but the hawk Effortlessly at height hangs his still eye.

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.

The purpose of revolution is to abolish unnecessary suffering.

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.

the evidence is there. Thought control is, to a free people, a cardinal sin. It is dangerous because focused propaganda can be effective. This is why the best teachers insist on a broad range of learning, most especially including skepticism. We must teach our students to use caution when they are exposed to ideologies that have followers whose enthusiasm clouds their judgment.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

that was the beauty of writing one's own tale. She could do whatever she wanted. She'd always wanted to be an evil overlord. Or a nice one. She had no real preference. Just so long as she was in charge.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

No one can make up your mind for you, unless you make up your mind to let them.

In prison we become the prisoners even of our dreams.

How can we liberate love for each other if we do not liberate love.

In Paradise Now we looked for illogical catalysts with which to precipitate the age of freedom. We consulted the oracles, we used the arcs of our bodies, our lurching minds, incantation, raising and lowering body heat, breath, wind, human contact, patterns of light, spells, rituals, visions, dreams.

What magic, what alchemical changes, unexpected, unknown as yet to man, can produce a state of freedom in a society in which it is not possible for one of us to be free until we are all free?

But the truth is influential, it is powerful, it reaches the recesses of the mind. You cannot ask the truth not to exert its powers. The truth is one of the most important instruments in the people's struggle for food and freedom. We are out to exercise the occult powers of the truth.

You cannot be free if you are contained within a fiction.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

The novel cannot submit to authority.

Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

T)he political response to terror must always be to increase and to promote freedom. The battle is truly for hearts and minds and should be waged with all the propaganda tools available to a prosperous democracy.

Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.