Quotes About Freedom

A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. "What bird are you calling?" I asked finally, when I couldn't stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. "You.

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

Better days are coming! They're called Saturday and Sunday.

Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it go would

Everything I've ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it's up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.

Organisation? sade hon. Vi söker ingen organisation. Det som är organiskt behöver inte organiseras. Ni bygger utifrån, vi byggs inifrån. Ni bygger med er själva som stenar och faller sönder utifrån och in. Vi byggs inifrån som träd och det växer ut broar mellan oss som inte är av död materia och dött tvång. Från oss går det levande ut. I er går det livlösa in.

Take away security to leave room for experience.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

The years of speeches about democracy and freedom were just words directed at an audience of mainly conservative Americans who had become enamoured with Africa's best known 'freedom fighter'. His commitment to democratic principles was no more real than the Maoist rhetoric Savimbi spouted in the pre-independence days when China was his biggest backer. It all comes down to this: 'If I don't win, I won't accept the result.

In just a few months, he vows, Cabinda will be free of Angolan rule and the huge sums of money earned from the oil exports will be used to uplift the enclave's 150,000 people. 'Without doubt, we are going to win this war, even if it takes twenty years.

True happiness, self-development, freedom, comes from inside - and is expressed externally in bright faces, a big smile, and plenty of laughing. Just look at the Dalai Lama.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

In Polanyi's view the fascist impulse—to protect society from the market by sacrificing human freedom—was universal, but local contingencies determined where fascist regimes were successful in taking power.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.