Quotes About Freedom

Los que están de acuerdo con la libertad del sexo tampoco se diferencian gran cosa; lo único que hacen es dar una justificación racional a las violaciones recíprocas. Aceptando este punto de vista, se podría llegar al goce; pero la libertad ligada a una constante preocupación - como una cortina que no cierra bien- puede producir un psicópata sexual, y ya no queda para su órgano ni la oportunidad de quitarse el sombrero y descansar.

Libertatea, combinat? cu nelini?tea constant? - ca o perdea care nu se trage de tot — poate s? duc? numai la crearea de psihopa?i sexuali.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

Was kann gewaltiger sein als die Zerstörung aller Bücher?

Most of the time you will be the it being let go of.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith!

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

In a conservative society, stability and order were far more important than freedom of expression.

The Roman clergy thus adopted the old aristocracy's ideal of libertas, which had little to do with freedom; rather, it referred to the maintenance of the privileged position of the ruling class, lest society lapse into barbarism.

The right to liberty was crucial: it is difficult to find a single reference to imprisonment in the whole of rabbinic literature, because only God can curtail the freedom of a human being. Spreading scandal about somebody was tantamount to denying the existence of God.104 Jews were not to think of God as a Big Brother, watching their every move from above; instead they were to cultivate a sense of God within each human being so that our dealings with others became sacred encounters.

Qur'anic legislation insisted that the individual was free and sovereign—and that also applied to women.

But it was more than that. Paris represented life, sensuality, freedom, and fun. And that somehow made it impossible.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

The thing which in the waking world comes nearest to a dream is night in a big town, where nobody knows one, or the African night. There too is infinite freedom: it is there that things are going on, destinies are made round you, there is activity to all sides, and it is none of your concern.

Come now,' I said to him, 'and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they have got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?

It does not pay to be possessive of a man determined to remain free.

I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.

One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.