Quotes About Freedom

I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or not.

to say that dust bunnies were the spirit animals of creatives.

Let the wild ruckus commence.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.

In my experience,...the humans who talk most loudly about freedom are the ones who think it's so good that nobody else should have any of it.

The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.

As hard as it was to hold on to things, it was even harder to let them go.

I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.

Only...ever...you.

Andy opened her mouth and screamed as loud as she could. It felt good, but she couldn't scream for the rest of her life.

older and she always got to drive. She opened

Will let out a breath he felt like he'd been holding his entire life.

Paul looked at the man for the first time since he'd walked through the door. "Should I go punch him in the nose?" "Yes." "Will you take me to the hospital when he punches me back?" "Yes." Paul smiled, but only because she was smiling, too. "So, how does it feel to be untethered?

She had to start making decisions rather than having life make decisions for her.

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.

Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

Mon plus grand luxe est de n'avoir à me justifier auprès de personne.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.