Quotes About Freedom

There is no more irritating fellow than the one who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or freedom, by quoting from the dictionary. Lexicographers may be respected as authorities on word usage, but they are not the ultimate founts of wisdom.

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them. It's a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

For law can be just or unjust. Dr. Huey P. Newton said, "The law must serve men; not men serve the law." John Africa, founder of the MOVE Organization, said, "Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.

But America, like every nation, has its ages of psychosis. It has fits of indecision and periods of self-delusion. Consider how presidents spoke movingly of freedom from tyranny while personally holding hundreds of men, women, and children in slavery.

Free Kashyyyk.

I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make  your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.

When your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is but a step away.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always, and always thus will be.

but only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'twas always thus and always thus will be.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The result was a burst of creativity and prosperity never seen before.

He says you freed him, Thorgil said with a face like a thundercloud. I did. Wait a minute. How did you know what he said?... You're like Sigurd. You got dragon's blood in your mouth.

Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.

Whatever approach you take to reading the Bible, don't let yourself become a slave to the method. Don't get so caught up in the mechanics that you miss the point.

She...ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter....

la poesía viene sola con todo lo que dejo a mi paso: flor o demonio, la poesía viene sola como un pájaro (de Amor, Ciudad Atribuída)

Esta gaviota vuela sobre el eterno cielo de Hanoi, como antes volaba el agresivo B-52. (de En El País de Vietnam)

ese rumor de aliento libre en primavera que corre al mar para volver y volver a partir. that whisper of the free breath of spring that flows seaward only to return returning only to depart again. (de Negro)

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