Quotes About Freedom

The desert's illimitable freedom," the officer murmured, as he poured out Simon's whiskey. "It's not altogether her fault, Mr. Jackson. It's these damned novelists. Every novel written about the desert should be censored by the police.

Christian freedom is found in relationship to Christ himself, not in autonomy or individual independence. Identifying the sources of enslavement today is part of the discernment of spirits which marks our quest for holiness.

Giving alms is not commanded just to help those in need. It is also necessary to help each of us live more freely, more gratuitously, more like the God in whose image we are made.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Gerçek özgürlük, politik toplumlar?n kendileri için en deÄŸerli sayd?klar? deÄŸerleri koruma özgürlüÄŸüdür ve günümüzün biyoteknoloji devrimi söz konusu olduÄŸunda kullanmam?z gereken özgürlük iÅŸte budur.

Christian freedom was an inner condition of the spirit, and not an external condition of the body.

creedal, built around the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity

Liberal democracy is built around the rights given to individuals who are equal in their freedom, that is, who have an equal degree of choice and agency in determining their collective political lives.

an idea that became foundational in modern thought, that we have deeply hidden inner natures that are smothered by the layers of social rules imposed on us by the society surrounding us. Autonomy for him meant recovery of that authentic inner self, and escape from the social rules that imprisoned it.

an autonomous self that has been detached from all prior loyalties and commitments "is not to conceive of an ideally free and rational agent, but to imagine a person wholly without character, without moral depth":

The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Who the hell ever said that plenty was supposed to abolish unhappiness? But what it will do is free our hands to concentrate on unhappiness.

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?

Qué agradable es perder la noción del tiempo!

Y en la fornicación, que es un bien general, debe haber democracia libre, porque si no… va a haber que hacerlo por correspondencia…

Para mantenerse libres hay que tener los ojos siempre abiertos puestos sobre el gobierno. Hay que espiar sus pasos, oponerse a sus atentados, reprimir sus desvíos… [el objetivo] es ejercer un control perpetuo sobre los hombres que llegan al poder. Aunque vosotros los hayáis elegido, controlarlos es un deber de todos en todo momento.

Todo en el aire es pájaro.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.