Quotes About Freedom

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

The time for falling in love was when you were emotionally available and free of cares, when it didn't matter what time you came home or how late you were getting up the next day. When you had hours and hours to spend gazing into each other's eyes and even longer hours making love, uninterrupted. If you wait for the perfect time to fall in love…it'll never happen.

Part of the school dilemma results from an over-focus on testing results; home educators are free from that pressure, so you won't have to decide between test prep and expository writing.

A debt-free bachelor's degree is, as it turns out, priceless: As Jane Austen puts it, it sets you up forever. My friends were still paying off their school loans in their forties. I never had any school debt at all. Because I had no debt, I could choose my life, and choose my adventure.

every American is governed only by the principle of personal responsibility and that his or her most important freedom is the absolute freedom to flourish or fail.

Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

What is it exactly that I'm allowed to do with you?" I asked. "Anything you want.

We're detectives . . . We can do anything we want.

I don't believe in destiny, although I am sometimes tempted by the freedom implied by inevitability.

Mientras no estás enamorada, mientras tu corazón es libre y tu mirada no es de nadie, entre todos los hombres que podrían interesarte ni uno solo se digna a prestarte atención; después, en el momento en que te sientes atrapada por una única persona y no te importan los demás absolutamente nada, todos te persiguen, pronuncian dulces palabras, te galantean.

Isn't it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice?

Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.

Let's face it, we can't shop for intelligence, creativity, or freedom.

In this "land of the free" we are burned, tortured, and denied a fair trial, murdered for any imaginary wrong conceived in the brain of the negro-hating white man. There is no redress for us from a government which promised to protect all under its flag.

On the 9th day of May, 1862, at which time there were nearly four millions of your race in bondage, sanctioned by the laws of the land and protected by our flag,--on that day, in the face of the floods of prejudice that well-nigh deluged every avenue to manhood and true liberty, you came forth to do battle for your country and kindred.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. —Catherine Ponder

I knew myself right down to the blood and the bone and the breath that were singing there loud and clear and wild in the wind.

Stop Listening to Others.

You're not my type for long-term imprisonment.

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.