Quotes About Freedom

Signora, il suo amore era talmente ardente che avrei potuto ricambiarlo solo facendo di lei mia moglie o la mia amante. Io non accettai ma, per il grande amore che mi portava, le offrii mille lire sterline di rendita all'anno per lei e per i suoi eredi se avesse sposato un cavaliere di suo gradimento. Signora, non mi piace essere obbligato ad amare; l'amore deve nascere dal cuore, non dalla costrizione.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.

This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness -- they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service.

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us

Al igual que el tiempo, el espacio trae consigo el olvido; aunque lo hace desprendiendo a la persona humana de sus contingencias para transportarla a un estado de libertad originaria; incluso del pedante y el burgués hace, de un solo golpe, una especie de vagabundo. El tiempo, según dicen, es Lete, el olvido; pero también el aire de la distancia es un bebedizo semejante, y si bien su efecto es menos radical, cierto es que es mucho más rápido.

Did we not, at the very moment of birth, stumble into agonizing captivity? A prison, a prison with bars and chains everywhere!

Die Freiheit existiert, und auch der Wille existiert; aber die Willensfreiheit existiert nicht, denn ein Wille, der sich auf seine Freiheit richtet, stößt ins Leere.

how it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace—and

He always knows instantly whether I have chosen the wild or the world, directly I get outside the door.

niebo nale?y pozostawi? wróblom.

Mon Dieu, dit-il, ils sont libres... Je veux dire, ce sont des jeunes gens, et le temps pour eux n'a pas d'importance. Pourquoi donc feraient-ils triste figure ? Je me dis quelquefois : être malade et mourir, ce n'est pas sérieux en somme, c'est plutôt une sorte de laisser-aller ; du sérieux, on n'en rencontre à tout prendre que dans la vie de la plaine. Je crois que tu comprendras cela, lorsque tu auras séjourné plus longtemps ici.

Todavía doy importancia a mi libertad, o al menos a ese resto de libertad y dignidad humana que aún conservamos.

Aja kombel toob ka ruum unustust, vabastades inimisiksuse tema sidemetest ning juhtides ta tagasi kunagisse vabasse algolekusse ning tehes isegi pedandist ja filistrist ühe hetkega vagabundi.

They let him be. He was like the scholar in the peculiarly happy state of never being "asked" any more; of never having a task, of being left to sit, since the fact of his being left behind is established, and no one troubles about him further—an orgiastic kind of freedom, but we ask ourselves whether, indeed, freedom ever is or can be of any other kind.

Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.

Un sitio libre, en un rincón cercano a la puerta, atrajo felizmente su mirada. Se colocó con discreción y procuró hacer ver que se hallaba sentado allí desde el principio.

Let me tell you the whole truth: if ever Fascism should come to America, it will come in the name of freedom.

Verità e ragione possono bensì essere oppresse esteriormente per un periodo nero, ma in noi rimangono eternamente libere e dalla serena altezza dell'arte lo spirito può ridersi dell'assurdo che vince, e non già in solitario abbandono, ma in sicura alleanza con tutti i migliori.

Zar nije svaki ?ovek po jedna omaška i promašaj? Zar on, ve? kako se rodi, ne dospeva u mu?no zato?enje? Robija! Robija! Okovi i stege na sve strane! Kroz rešetke svoje individualnosti žuri ?ovek beznadno, na kružni zid spoljnih okolnosti, sve dok smrt ne do?e i ne zovne ga nazad u zavi?aj i slobodu...

Freedom exists, and also the will exists; but the freedom of the will does not exist, for a will that aims at its own freedom aims at the unknown.

Truth, and the freedom to seek it, are not luxury-products which enervate a people and unfit them for the struggle of life. They belong to life, they are life's daily bread.