Quotes About Freedom

Subtly, she was telling him that she had her own life, her own business. An independent woman could always leave.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

We, as citizens of a supposedly free country, should not permit our government to restrict any information that protects criminal activity under the guise of National Security.

This criminal government doesn't want guns in the hands of people who can think for themselves.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress or to stimulate the male sex urge.

Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It's another war, I think.

Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some

a few dreamers believed you could build a nation upon ideas such as liberty and equality.

To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home—to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among strangers, even if all girls—was wicked. His

Wildness and wet . . . let them be left . . . ' " " 'Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Let's go then," I whispered. "Let's go and live, since we have no choice in it.

some half-dozen children running in the fields or about the wetus—fewer

There's always sentiment against free nig—against his kind.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.

Want to be free? Course I do. But a soldier ain't free." He thought about May's husband, his shattered arm, his uncertain future. "I respect the men who joined your army, I do. But I've been taking orders all my life, and now I'm giving them.

Liberty has never come from the government," Wilson had told his audience. "Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

No one is ever so poor that he is not (without prejudice to all the rest of the world) owner of the skies and stars and everything wild that is to be found on the earth.

O let them be left, wildness and wet