Quotes About Freedom

En primer lugar, no dejéis que nadie gobierne vuestra mente ni vuestro cuerpo y emplead especial atención para no poner límites a vuestras ideas porque se puede ser un hombre libre a pesar de sufrir ataduras más fuertes que las de un esclavo. Escuchad a los hombres, pero no os entreguéis a ellos en cuerpo y alma. Sed respetuosos con los que ostentan el poder, pero no los sigáis ciegamente. Juzgad con lógica y con razón, pero no hagáis comentarios.

they will serve you well." He bent his gaze sternly on them. "First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.

Y qué tengo que decidir exactamente? Se sorprendió cuando Inarë le acarició cariñosamente la mejilla, sonriendo. - Quién quieres ser, porsupuesto. ¿Acaso no se reducen a eso todas nuestras decisiones? Y ahora, debo irme. Tengo gente a la que incordiar y sitios de los que escapar. Elige bien, viajera. Piensa a la larga. Piensa deprisa. Comete el camino.

May your path always lead to knowledge, Prisoner. Knowledge to freedom.

I'd rather struggle and fail on my own than be coddled as a slave.

place where we are responsible for our own actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment

Beware of losing your way, for you are one of the few who are truly free to choose their own fate. That freedom is a gift, but also a responsibility more binding than chains

Mieux vaut mourir en plein vol que de périr écrasé au sol

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

Giving up our values in the name of security is to lose the battle in advance

La colpa è una cosa perfida: una volta che ti penetra dentro è difficile liberarsene.

If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.' 'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.

These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect—truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark.

He experienced that thrilling social vertigo that accompanies total freedom in a context of pointlessness.

How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.' 'You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky. 'Yes and No,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.

How does one become a butterfly? she asked. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

We can fly! "We can become butterflies! "There's nothing at the top and it doesn't matter!" As he heard his own message he realized how he had misread the instinct to get high. To get to the "top" he must fly, not climb.

The truth is, many people do not consciously choose monogamy; society chooses it for them, and it becomes the default.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? —George Bernard Shaw

si no se confía en que una mujer tome decisiones sobre su propio cuerpo, ¿cómo se la puede ver como autónoma en lo que respecta al resto de su vida?

Todos somos esclavos, ama —replicó Vora—. Las mujeres. Los hombres, a su manera. No existe la libertad, solo diferentes tipos de esclavitud. Incluso un ashaki ve constreñidos sus actos por las restricciones que imponen la tradición y la política. Y el emperador es aún menos libre que ellos.

But consider what he would have done to you, Sonea. One day you may have to kill for your freedom." Faren lifted an eyebrow. "Have you thought about that?

163. Prisoners We are all prisoners. But we sit on the keys. Finitude is our cell. The universe is our prison. Our jail keeper is the Act of Being. The keys to liberation are clenched tightly in the fists of our own egos.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.