Quotes About Freedom

Democracy is for the people by the people, no brothers no sisters no churches no titles!

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

Life at sea is hard. And often deadly. (Morgan) Then why do you do it? (Serenity) Because we love it. (Morgan) A glutton for punishment, aren't you? (Serenity)

They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are free, they never forget their past and spend their lives trying to bring peace to others. (Brotherhood Chanson)

Better than being slave to a man who has no regard for me other than a broodmare for his children. (Rowena) True. I should hate to be a broodmare for a man. (Stryder)

I am merely biding my time. (Stryder) For what? (Rowena) For the moment when I am out of this cell and am able to wreak havoc on the one who put me here. I'm going to pull out his innards through his nostrils and dance around his entrails. (Stryder)

Every person I save is another victory against the evil that festers in this world and I will not rest until every captive is free. (Stryder)

The academic and writer Sara Ahmed has written brilliantly about the idea of the feminist killjoy, and why it should be embraced – because feminism isn't about making everyone around the table feel comfortable. It's about being disruptive, challenging, and changing the terms of the debate, so that, over time, almost certainly with discomfort and backlash, everyone becomes freer.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death

I'm an adult and this is my house. I can grow what I like in my garden. Wear what I choose. What difference does it make what you or anyone else thinks of as normal? Why the f should I care if you approve?

Stop putting people in boxes of Manly or Lady Like. Let people be themselves.

In the Western mind, any undemocratic political system that deprives citizens the ability to choose or remove a leader is by definition evil.

Americans hold sacrosanct the ideals of freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion and also believe that every human being is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. The Chinese believe that social needs and social harmony are more important than individual needs and rights and that the prevention of chaos and turbulence is the main goal of governance.

His mother watched him for a moment, then turned. She had to thrash to free herself from the bank, and then she was gone, swimming fast out to sea.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.

I am gay, and that's a good thing.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

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 for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.