Quotes About Freedom

I might have no one in the world, but at least I'm free.

cada vez que la soledad se te mete por dentro como un continente en llamas, te amarras los cordones de los tenis y te das a la fuga por los senderos y eso ayuda, de verdad que ayuda.

Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs.

nunca se puede escapar. Jamás. La única salida está por dentro.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

but his mind, free to go wherever it wished, chose to move over the past, hovering atop it like a bird over some immense body of water, no shoreline in sight, only the distant reflection of himself in its shining surface for company.

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. She wondered what she would do.

Something irrevocable had happened, beyond knowing. He looked down at the body. He had felt her soul leaving her. It had brushed him like a breeze, only a breeze that was inside him, made of words. Thank you, thank you. I am free.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

Anyone who's been under someone's thumb can tell you that power, true power, is never about size or looks.

because she was scared of what people in the Land of Beautiful might say or think about her face. Let them say what they want. Leave Terra Bella to the shallow, and claim the world for your own. The entire world, that's what I wanted. I wanted to travel it, experience it, revel in it. Abraham Ortelius made history in 1570 with his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the Theatre of the World, the first modern atlas of Earth as was known and catalogued at that moment.

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.