Quotes About Freedom

Cuanta razón tenía Disraeli! Cuando nuestro pájaro halla abierta la jaula, no quiso volar.

with true Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes.

Já compreendemos que a aurora e o poente são os momentos em que goza liberdade peculiar; quando sua antiga natureza se manifesta sem nenhuma força controladora subjugá-la e impedir que fale conosco ou mesmo a incite a agir contra nós. Esse estado começa aproximadamente meia hora antes do amanhecer ou do crepúsculo e dura até o sol estar alto ou enquanto as nuvens ainda reluzem com os raios no horizonte.

Not kill us, Pigeon corrected. She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—" "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted.

When I though I was utterly past feeling, you sparked my interest. I remain sufficiently curiouse to help you. I have no private agenda. You remain free to use your gifts however you choose. Seth furrowed his brow. I guess I don't feel more evil than before. Choices determine character. I can't make you evil any more than you can make me good. You made no decision to become a shadow charmer. These new abilities have been thrust upon you be circumstances beyond your control.

The comforts of life as a fugitive, Drake sighed. Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

I know I'm not permanent in this world," Kendra said. "But guess what—neither is the sun. I get to live my life. Someday death will free me and I will go someplace new. I don't want to get stuck here. What if this life is just the beginning?" What if death means the end?

I'd rather die this way than live that way. This is the best I've felt in a long time.

To love is to lose control.  Ã¢â'¬â€Paulo Coelho

But you have to let go of the past first or you won't believe a word she says.

paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.

We are more than pawns, Kate. We are free to make our own choices. Kings and bishops shall not forever determine the fate of free men. (Frith) You're fleeing the wrath of a bishop, aren't you, and the king's soldiers? How can you be anything but a pawn in a dangerous game? (Kate) My choice, Kate. My choice not to play by the bishop's rules. A man whose spirit is free will never be a pawn in somebody else's game no matter what the consequences of his choice. (John) (p. 121)

He is a good man, and I don't like Thomas More and his band of heretic hunters. A man should have a right to believe what a man wants to believe. (p. 337)

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead end. Where are we going? I asked. I don't know he said just driving. But this road doesn't go anywhere I told him. That doesn't matter. What does? I asked, after a little while. Just that we're on it, dude. He said.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

when you were young and your heart was an open book you used to say live and let live.

Romeo Void blared out of the sunroof.

Everything has been degraded by what the sensory overload and the supposed freedom-of-choice technology has brought to us, and, in short, by the democratization of the arts.

once you start choosing how people can and cannot express themselves then this opens the door to a very dark room in the corporation from which there's really no escape. Can't they in return police your thoughts, and then your feelings and then your impulses? And, finally, can they police, ultimately, your dream?

I was now looking at a new kind of liberalism, one that willingly censored people and punished voices, obstructed opinions and blocked viewpoints.

Maybe it was just another episode in the reality show that is still unfolding. Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.

The greatest crime being perpetrated in this new world is that of stamping out passion and silencing the individual.