Quotes About Freedom

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

BRICK —No me gusta que me digan lo que debo hacer. ¿Ya has olvidado las condiciones que acepté para que continuáramos viviendo juntos? MARGARET —Tú no vives conmigo, Brick. Únicamente compartes la misma jaula.

God works from within a committed relationship with the world and not on the world from without in total freedom.

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." -

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

You don't go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

There is no question that a society that sets out to control its citizens' use of drugs sets out on the slippery path to totalitarianism.

Cuando estoy encerrada en mi cuarto, no leo; ¡escribo todo aquello que se me antoja, porque el papel, este blanco luminoso papel, me guarda con amor todo cuando le digo y nunca, jamás, se escandaliza, ni me regaña, ni se pone las manos abiertas sobre los oídos!..

If I had a theme song it would probably be "B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak" by the Beastie Boys.

There were benefits to working with addicts. They didn't even realize they were slaves.

Fire on the mountain," the granny woman said. "They up there sharpening they swords." Then she said that word again: freedom.

Mostly, kids were expected to entertain themselves and stay out of their parents' hair. To that end, you were sent outside to play at the drop of a hat. It wasn't an option; it was a standing mandate. If there wasn't a winter blizzard or a spring rainstorm or a summer heat wave, you went outside and stayed outside until the next mealtime came around.

Your home is wherever you make it. Your people are whomever you wish them to be. But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

If you were a witch and you could do magic, you could wear whatever clothing you wanted.

P?zeau Nestemata ca pe lac?tul propriilor c?tuÈ™e, în aÈ™teptarea vremurilor când se va fi aflat o cheie care s? le desferece.

Most of the reforms we now regard as precious features of liberal society—universal suffrage, free universal education, freedom of the press, trade unions and so on—were won by popular struggle in the teeth of ferocious ruling-class resistance.

It is language's lack of visualisability which confers such enviable freedom upon it. Seeing language as no more than an image or representation of reality is a way of restricting its liberty.

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.

Under capitalism, we are deprived of the power to decide whether we want to produce more hospitals or more breakfast cereals. Under socialism, this freedom would be regularly exercised.

At every stage, public debate over alternative economic plans and policies would be essential. In this way, what and how we produce could be determined by social need rather than private profit. Under capitalism, we are deprived of the power to decide whether we want to produce more hospitals or more breakfast cereals. Under socialism, this freedom would be regularly exercised.

What is one to make of the tirades of those who appear to know little of politics beyond their own invaluable right to publish their stuff and say what they think?

Ölümün kaç?n?lmaz olduÄŸunu bilmek ama yine de dansa devam etmek, gene de baÅŸkald?rmak, gene de dilenciye ekmek vermek. Ä°ÅŸte bu olabilecek en saf özgürlüktür. -Azizler ve Alimler

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.