Quotes About Freedom

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.

With Sir Isaac Newton's laws of physics, and God being seen as the powerful machine operator who perfectly controls the machine through these orderly laws, we end up with the opposite problem, the very opposite of the ancient situation. Now, instead of chaos reigning and us wondering if there's any order, order reigns supreme, and we wonder if there's any freedom.

need to renounce my citizenship?4

Magna Carta or no, the rights of Americans were not not theirs only because of any ancient "contract." As James Wilson put it, using ancient legal terms, "The fee simple of freedom and government is declared to be in the people.

Life's about making choices, Dylan. This was my choice. I don't have a single regret.

The equations are indifferent to the supposed freedom of human will. Some have taken this to mean that in a classical universe, free will would be an illusion. You are made of a collection of particles, so if the laws of classical physics could determine everything about your particles at any moment—where they'd be, how they'd be moving and so on—your willful ability to determine your own actions would appear fully compromised.

Schrödinger raised some eyebrows (and lost his first publisher) when he invoked the Hindu Upanishads to suggest that we are all part of an "omnipresent, all-comprehending eternal self," and the freedom of will we each exert reflects our divine powers.

Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences—humans do not.

Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them. —Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering

Learn from the past—don't wear it like a yoke around your neck.

The universe is a playground of improvisation—it follows no external pattern. —COGITOR RETICULUS, Observations from a Height of a Thousand Years

Any training school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

You may have enslaved our bodies, but our hearts and minds will always be free!

Wanna fly. Stryk Redkite flyover mountain like sky-clouds," the big bird wailed. John folded his spectacles away. "Huh, now we must wait? Try telling her that.

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.

Though we can never guarantee our people complete safety, we can send a message to those who seek to harm the free and the brave. You might knock us to the ground but you sure as hell won't keep us there.

Art has no responsibility except to be art.

what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?

No matter how much freedom they're given, most kids are still glorified props, carefully shuttled from one secure location to the next. We're not children, we're eggs.

Break the rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?

The accepted view appears to be that Neruda represent the real Chile: a place of poetry, freedom of spirit and international enterprise.

These days, we can be whatever we want to be. The apocalypse is sort of freeing, don't you think?