Quotes About Freedom

Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.

And so, the simple truth... the tracks we have walked in for so long become our lives, in themselves a prison

Exulting in the moment, witch, does not require wild dancing.

I will aknowledge that the matter is a secret but not one of my own, so I shall freely speak of it

Capitalism is founded on the selective application of freedom among the few at the expense of everyone else.

A terrible burden seemed to drain from him.

Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one's own soul was bound in chains?

Ublala, destiny is the fate you find for yourself. Many hold to the belief that it is preordained, as if the future was already decided and there is nothing you can do to escape it. I do not. Each of us is free to decide.

I always believed freedom concerned the granted right to be different, without fear of repression.

Yet identities persisted. On a personal level. Freedom was little more than a tattered net, draped over a host of minor, self-imposed bindings. Its stripping away changed little, except, perhaps, the comforting delusion of the ideal. Mind bound to self, self to flesh, flesh to bone. As the Errant wills, we are a latticework of cages, and whatever flutters within knows but one freedom, and that is death.

Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant

The most deadly seducers are the ones incouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward... not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

So much had changed inside him. He was no believer in causes, not any more. Certainty was an illusion, a lie. Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one's own soul was bound in chains?

Do not believe I now owe you, slave." "You will discover," the slave said, moving past the warrior, "that the notion of debt is not so easily denied.

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

Contrivances that require no food or water, that do not tire or grow lame, imagine the freedom of such a world as that would bring, Karsa Orlong." "People would go everywhere. What freedom in a smaller world, witch?

He knew which world he wanted to live in. But, people didn't have that choice, did they? Not unless they killed the spark inside themselves first. With drink, with the oblivion of sweet smoke, but those were false dreams and made mockery of the ones truly lost – the ones whose lives had passed.

it is knowledge that makes one aware of his or her own chains.' 'Knowledge only makes the eyes see what was there all along

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly. I want to be a soldier. A hero. You'll grow out of it.

One who binds risks getting bound in return. I will not walk that path.