Quotes About Freedom

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

In this country, we kept slaves from learning to read. Additionally, for a while in our history, you were adequately literate if you could simply sign your name—or even just make an X. In developing countries today, girls are still educated less than boys. What do these situations suggest about the potential power of reading?

Minimalism allows you to live without fear, worry, guilt, or depression. You have the mindset to experience real freedom when you live a minimalist lifestyle.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

Bengt didn't budge. "Talk to me, damn it." "Let go!" "And where are you planning to go, Alex?" "Away!" "You can't get away. You're lugging your own prison around with you and patching up any holes from inside. Brilliant tactics, really! How does it feel?" "Safe!

A feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty. It is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us free.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams?

Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

Gérard de Nerval

The name Prometheus has always caused me particular annoyance, for my breast still aches from the everlasting beak of the vulture from which Alcides set me free.

Freedom also has the potential to annihilate because it is limitless.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.

Korkudan bile olsa, insan kendinden kaçam?yor, ne o yöne ne bu yöne ç?k?? yok.

The metaphor of transformation deepens as we consider how a butterfly needs to struggle for its ability to fly. If the chrysalis is broken by someone in an attempt to help free the butterfly, its wings will be shriveled and immobile.

The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

A tr?i înseamn? a fi neliber prin iubire.

Umilirea este cel mai teribil atentat la adresa libert??ii.

If ever we two had a soul, let our soul —keep on walking and leave us behind.