Quotes About Freedom

Je reviens sur la piste, je danse encore, j'oublie mon corps, j'oublie la honte.

En France, des centaines de milliers de personnes défilent pour défendre l'école privée, qu'ils appellent l'école libre. La captation, l'usurpation de cet adjectif me rend fou. Ma conscience politique s'éveille.

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.

In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Desgarra de una vez como un trapo estas sombras, engañoso mendigo, cubierto con harapos, rondador de mortajas: es vergüenza fingir a distancia la muerte, basta con sentir miedo cuando esto sea. Ahora ponte una piel de sol y sal afuera igual que un cazador contra el viento, atraviesa como agua fresca y rápida tu vida".

Life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Uomo dell'aria, tu colora col sangue le ore sontuose del tuo passaggio fra noi. I limiti esistono soltanto nell'anima di chi è a corto di sogni.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Darvinizam je pri?a o osloba?anju ?ovje?anstva od iluzije da njegovom sudbinom upravlja neka sila viša od njega.

noble cause after all; maybe we were fighting against a cruel and vicious enemy that was in the service of an aggressive, hateful ideology with designs on enslaving other peoples and other countries; maybe—just maybe—we were doing the right thing.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice.

All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me, Without all this concrete hating me.

In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Can't I live while I'm young

Set the gearshift to the high gear of your soul You've got to run like an antelope out of control

O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being able to wear bells around my ankles and silver necklaces around my neck, but not any more, not since I had learned what they represented for the man who gave them. A necklace was no prettier than a piece of of rope that ties a goat to a tree, depriving it of freedom.

Nini Herman believes that the unresolved issues "which are active at the core of the mother-daughter dyad" are, to some extent, what psychologically holds women back and accounts for women's unconscious collusion with patriarchal edicts. I agree. Nini Herman believes that the unexamined mother-daughter relationship is precisely where women are "obstinately marking time" rather than moving toward freedom.

still behave as if they've been "colonized.

Perhaps most important, we need to support women who have fought back against their batterers and rapists and are wasting away in jail for daring to save their own lives. They are political prisoners and should be honored as such—not seen as pathological masochists who "chose" to stay until they "chose" to kill.

These elegant women were groomed, manicured and dipped in plastic. When was the last time they'd sweated and moaned and smeared their makeup making wild, passionate love? When was the last time I had?

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.