Quotes About Freedom

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

I was a leaf that had released its hold on the tree. This was my moment of motion, of flight – my solitary dance through the air, separate from my billion twins. No longer green and faceless on the tree, not yet crushed and decomposing on the forest floor.

East Timor,

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?

One of the ways the devil has deceived us and controlled our finances is through debt.

Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

ISAIAH 10:27 27 . . . the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

The beauty of the Internet is that people can take things, and do what they want with them, to project what they want or feel.

There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats… or with boats…. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.

There's nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.

Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

I give you my wings.

Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can.

Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

The fact of life is that the appreciation of true beauty cannot start without total renunciation. [...] But to live beautifully, one needs an unfettered mind, a mind that is not clogged up with all kinds of attachments, opinions, or fossilized ways of looking at things. There is no need to get rid of anything as long as we can sever our attachments to it.

When you can do nothing, what can you do? [...] This is the most amazing, yet most obvious and logical answer: that in the certainty of death, one should get as much out of life as possible. Paradoxically it is the absence of choice in this matter that allows us to have more inner freedom.

Down here, in our Cajun Magic Kingdom, I'm the Statue of Liberty. La Liberté éclairant le monde. But uptown, where the mold and the mildew still reign supreme, I go by Tiffany Proulx, which sounds like Peru, only without the pesky e inside. Most people call me Tiff, as in a fight, albeit a very small one. More like a squabble. A misunderstanding that's bound to sort itself out. Just give it a little time is all.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

When we released JUnit 4 recently we spent nearly half of our engineering budget on reducing the cost of deployment for our clients. We tried to make sure that new-style tests would work with old tools and old-style tests would work with new tools. We also worked to make sure we had the freedom to make future changes to JUnit without breaking client code.

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long—all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.