Quotes About Freedom

It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.

I understand only love and liberty.

Sahte siyasi gerçekler ne kadar iÄŸrenç! Bir düÅŸünce, bir hayal, bir kavramdan dolay? giyotin ad? verilen o korkunç gerçeklik!

The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed the door of evil and opened the door of good. It released the question, promulgated truth, drove away miasma, purified the century, crowned the people. We can say it created man a second time, in giving him a second soul, his rights. Page 997 Saint-Denis chapter 7 Argot part III

Le sens révolutionnaire est un sens moral. Le sentiment du droit, développé, développe le sentiment du devoir. La loi de tous, c'est la liberté, qui finit où commence la liberté d'autrui, selon l'admirable définition de Robespierre.

There is a crime commited by the society against the individual,a crime that is commited afresh each day

A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That

Au-dessus de l'absolu révolutionnaire, il y a l'absolu humain.

He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because he was free.

The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the door of ill and opened the door of good.

Thou art free!

Suddenly she let fly with this: It's nice here! It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free.

Do you permit it? Enjolras

At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press. It was the liberty of architecture.

Flat ubi vult

As long as he has for refrain nothing but la Carmagnole, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the Marseillaise, and he will free the world.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

Romanticism, so often ill-defined, is only ... liberalism in literature.

How pretty it is here! It was an awful hovel, but she felt free.

On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like

With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.

La scarcerazione non è liberazione. Si esce dal bagno penale ma non dalla condanna.