Quotes About Freedom

the last complete sentence she ever utters is "It's a good thing there's birds.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

It was something about all the stupid stuff Torian wouldn't have to do anymore—like put up with asshole tourists who peed on your house at Mardi Gras.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will.

There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow.

The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

But in a song or a tale, anything is possible

To say that is to say we have no choice at all in what we do, how we live. I don't believe that, Uncle. Perhaps we do have a short span in this world [...]; perhaps our scope is somewhat limited. But within those limits we do have the power to change things, the power to make choices and to go where we must.

Another man might have taken vengeance in blood and fire, or made an end of himself. Regan is stronger than that. There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on figting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow.

Disparate! - repliquei, e estava tão zangada com ele que o agarrei pelos ombros e lhe dei um bom abanão. - O final da história é teu, de mais ninguém. Podes fazê-lo como quiseres. Há tantos caminhos para o teu herói como ramos numa árvore.

Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few.

Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, like reading novels: before, reading a book without a Marxist cover would bring down a rain of criticism about being a bourgeois intellectual.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.

Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing us from behind. Your trouble is that you're confused, Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

Esta imagen de la arena que fluye constituyó un indescriptible y excitante impacto en el hombre. La aridez de la arena no se debe, como generalmente se piensa, a la simple sequedad, sino que parece producirse como consecuencia de un incesante movimiento que la convierte en inhóspita para todo ser viviente. ¡Qué diferencia con la monótona y pesada manera de vivir de los humanos, que exige estar constantemente aferrado a algo!