Quotes About Freedom

We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.

Automatic law corrodes our freedom

Mindless rules, not accountable officials, are the enemy of freedom.

You give people chances. What they do with those chances is their own affair. It's

Today's freedom fighters are tomorrow's dictators.

Here is unfenced existence

Qué libres somos cuando soñamos! Las barreras del tiempo, las limitaciones del espacio, las leyes de la lógica, las represiones de la conciencia... todo esto desaparece

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

These are new worlds, Zen. We don't have to be what we were any more. We can be anything that we want. We can be humans together. - Nova

Hon är själv fånge i sitt eget fängelse.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

It is also true, however, that "Egypt" is an internal state of being that we must pass through to achieve freedom and transformation.

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things! Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light, That doth both shine, and give us sight to see.

The wind funnelled down the covered platform, jostling the passengers and tearing at their clothes. A woman's scarf whipped by overhead, somersaulting as if intoxicated by the sudden taste of freedom.

I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.

It is up to the individual to choose the life they think best French

Spinoza is more than happy with this conclusion: he is a thorough-going determinist 'Experience tells us clearly that men believe themselves to be free simply because they are conscious of their actions and unconscious of the causes whereby these actions are determined; further, it is plain that the dictates of the mind are simply another name for the appetites that vary according to the varying state of the body.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo—their kind. To limbo.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.

No matter how much you want to respect someone's freedom (even when you consider it selfish), you still have your own pain, anger, and melancholy to contend with.

I sense the ambition and ease of a generation that has grown up on a much smaller planet. Those who consider travel an ordinary adventure rather than a grand expedition, for whom a quiet life is considered a slow death. I see this child of the world and can't help but think how fate probably would have played out differently had his father been driven by the same curiosity. If he had not lived in another day. If he had known how to free himself.