Quotes About Freedom

the concert had energized me in a peculiar and powerful way. It had jimmied the lock on my language box and smashed the last of my literary inhibitions.

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to be happy.

By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

It was Jefferson's genius that kept the American Revolution from being sucked into the tunnel faster than it was. Jefferson had red hair. Nothing is implied here.

She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.

Whether meaningful or meaningless, the game of life is there to be played - and the animal in his animal way seems to know it and the cage is an offense to what his inner animal voice tells him is right and true.

the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

play, you big wild gypsy girl, until beauty and wildness and longing are one.

and how dangerous and dumb it can be to embalm yourself in the attractive amber of the past.

who not only had once posed for naked pictures but who, on at least two occasions, had openly expressed reservations about Rome's prohibition against birth control.

a free spirit in the oneness of the whole enchilada, seeing the world -- material and immaterial -- for the all-inclusive miracle it is: not a continuous undifferentiated glob of stuff, mind you, but more like a great spiraling web whose interconnected threads are beaded with pulsing blips that as much as anything else resemble notes of music. I'm all too aware of how woo-woo this sounds, but it was as real

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

The Plastic People of the Universe played 'Venus in Furs' from Velvet Underground, and I knew everything was basically okay.

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.

For you, freedom means leave me alone. For the masses, it means give me a break.

Los sentimientos son libres pero rara vez los hombres se atreven a obedecer esa libertad. Me

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery

Break out of our boxes, Lord, and ruin everything that isn't of You!")

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away