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Quotes About Freedom

viss, piln?gi viss liecin?ja, ka, l?dzko atg?šu neatkar?bu, - zaud?šu br?v?bu.
~ Julio Cortazar
y así va el mundo y el jazz es como un pájaro que migra o emigra o inmigra o transmigra, saltabarreras, burlaaduanas, algo que corre y se difunde...
~ Julio Cortazar
al jazz como un modesto ejercicio de liberación
~ Julio Cortazar
Die Frauen liebten ihn zunächst abgöttisch (...), bewunderten ihn (...) dann ließ irgend etwas sie die Leere ahnen, sie machten kehrt und er erleichterte ihnen die Flucht, öffnete ihnen die Tür, damit sie weglaufen konnten, um anderswo zu spielen.
~ Julio Cortazar
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. Happy was she who was in the room, who had the freedom of the city in everything that she touched or came in contact with, a fish swimming downstream, a leaf on a tree, a cloud in the sky, an image in a poem. Fish, leaf, cloud, image: that's it precisely, unless…
~ Julio Cortazar
Sólo viviendo absurdamente se podría romper alguna vez este absurdo infinito», se repitió Oliveira.
~ Julio Cortazar
Felices los que eligen, los que aceptan ser elegidos, los hermosos héroes, los hermosos santos, los escapistas perfectos».
~ Julio Cortazar
Bruno, se solo potessi vivere come in quei momenti, o come quando suono e anche il tempo cambia... Ti rendi conto di che cosa potrebbe succedere in un minuto e mezzo... Allora un uomo, non soltanto io, ma tu e quella là e tutti i ragazzi, potremmo vivere mille volte di più di quello che stiamo vivendo per colpa degli orologi, di questa mania dei minuti e dei dopodomani...
~ Julio Cortazar
Receava, particularmente, a forma mais sutil da gratidão, que se torna carinho canino; não queria que a liberdade, a única roupa que caía bem na Maga, se perdesse numa feminilidade diligente.
~ Julio Cortazar
Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Las "libertades políticas" no son nada sin las libertades o la autonomia económica, sea en el terreno individual, o en el colectivo. En este último, porque en régimen democrático son los grupos en posesión de riqueza quienes controlan la prensa y todos los demás medios de formación de la "opinión pública" y de la propaganda.
~ Julius Evola
The limitations of necessity made him free. He loved the necessity which exercised his faculties, and brought before his vision what he loved to see. he could have done nothing in other surroundings. Prostitutes were his sisters, and working men his brothers. Like them he was an outcast- an outcast who knew the peace of that despair which has long since given up useless strife.
~ Julius Meier-Graefe
Su describes her anger as "a little femina, two centimeters tall" who claps inside her head every time she speaks out. "I'm dedicating my life to her, whatever the trends of the times. No more anger-sitters. No more camps or schools. No more lollipops. She's going to get all the advantages my expanse of years can provide, every opportunity to become whatever she wants to become, even if she wants to get married and have lots of little angers.
~ June Arnold
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
~ June Jordan
We had to break those laws or agree to the slaveholder's image of us: three fifths of a human being.
~ June Jordan
Bisexuality means to me that I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
~ June Jordan
I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life
~ June Jordan
Punky had shown me how to make friends, how to be free, and I was going to spread my wings and fly.
~ June Rae Wood
The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.
~ June Wayne
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
~ Jung Chang
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
~ Junius
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
~ Junot Diaz
Revenge is living well, without you.
~ Junot Diaz
The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name.
~ Junot Diaz