Quotes About Freedom

A Seeker is a person who answers to no one but himself; he is a law unto himself. The Sword of Truth is his to wield as he wishes, and within the limits of his own strength, he can hold anyone to answer for anything.

People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive

People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.

Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.

You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives.

of his past captors. Any warrior would. He

Them's the vermin: them who take what little we can earn or make with our hands so as to promise it right back to us, expecting us to be thankful at their kind hearts; them who tempt good people to be lazy so they can rule us like they do sheep at a trough; them who took our freedom and our ways. Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. I don't know what the world's coming to.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. I was reminded of that fact only today. She was the one we buried. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it, so that all will value and preserve it.

All, no matter their means, must have an investment in their freedom, and will pay their part. This principle is law, and inviolate.

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it

Nobody should have to hide who they are inside to please people on the outside.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life with you

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

There is always a choice. You mean I could choose certain death? A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

William: I'm sure we can all pull together, sir. Vetinari: Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.