Quotes About Freedom

Is there not perhaps a contradiction between our feeling of freedom and the rigor, as we now understand it, with which things operate in the world?

One of my most deeply held assumptions about human life is that without freedom of thought humans cannot fully evolve.

We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom.

America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world.

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Hiçbir ?ey temsilinin d???nda vuku bulmaz," diye itiraz etti iki delikanl? ile sözünü esirgemeyen Yahudi bir k?z. "Herkes istedi?i temsili seçme hakk?na sahiptir.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." —C.S. Lewis With

sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

I like to travel by myself.

You make your own party.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings!

Por eso me quedo, porque puedo irme.

Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

Nunca está uno libre; el que no está atado a algo, no vive... Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

Mi libro se quedará solo danzando desordenado y loco su danza sonámbula

Yo pensaba que también podía ser heroico escaparse por gusto, sin más, por amor a la libertad y a la alegría—no a la alegría impuesta oficial y mesurada, sino a la carcajada y a la canción que brotan de una fuente cuyas aguas nadie canaliza.

What the paper failed to recognize was that black people's willingness to work had never been the problem. Having to work for free, under backbreaking conditions and the threat of the lash, was the real issue.

The eighteenth-century origins of the "right to bear arms" explicitly excluded Black people.19 South Carolina encoded into law that the enslaved could not "carry or make use of fire-arms or any offensive weapons whatsoever" unless "in the presence of some white person.