Quotes About Freedom

Y es que de pronto estaba sin Teresa. Solo la veía de noche, cuando ella volvía del restaurante y él se despertaba ligeramente del primer sueño y luego otra vez por la mañana, cuando era ella la que estaba adormilada y él tenía prisa por llegar al trabajo. Tenía 16 horas para sí mismo y aquel era un ámbito de libertad inesperadamente conquistado. Todo ámbito de libertad significaba para él, desde su temprana juventud, mujeres

Toda la vida había tenido miedo de herirla y sólo por eso se había impuesto voluntariamente la disciplina de una monogamia idiotizante. ¡Y al cabo de 20 años de pronto comprueba que sus reparos han sido completamente inútiles y que se había privado de otras mujeres sólo por culpa de un malentendido!

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Delante de ella me lo podía permitir todo, hasta la sinceridad.

Tereza, s? m?nh là cái gì h?t s?c ngu xu?n. Anh ch?ng có s? m?nh gì c?. Không ai có. Và th?t nh? nhõm khi nh?n ra mình không còn n?ng n? má»™t s? m?nh nào.

Tereza, això de la missió és una bestiesa. No tinc cap missió. Ningú no té cap missió. I és un gran alleujament sentir que ets lliure, que no tens cap mena de missió.

?ovjek može sam sebi oduzeti život. Ali, ?ovjek ne može sam sebi oduzeti besmrtnost.

It has something malicious about it (things suddenly turning out different from what they pretended to be), but to some extent also a beneficent relief (things are less weighty than they appeared to be, letting us live more freely, no longer oppressing us with their austere seriousness).

what HAD come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

When you're creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

History only suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." —Justice Louis Brandeis

Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.

The government has no more right to tell me what goes into my mouth, including illegal drugs, than it has to tell me what comes out of my mouth.

I love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.