Quotes About Freedom

Our bodies let go when it's time to let go — it's called death. We ought to let go of the little burdensome things each day — that's called living.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

I like a good big hall, don't you? I figured to get it big enough to play a game of badminton in. May be that's unnecessarily large, but that's better than being all cramped up, you know.

Draft beer, not people.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a love-breath that takes you all the way to infinity.

Breathe open fields of calm and content. Don't clang your lungs against your burdens. A constricted life needn't constrict your breath.

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!

Butterflies, bees our wingèd, happy friends Oh, to dance in the air and float on the breeze...

Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower, and flush toilet.

After all, cats are the only untamed pets that we have. You cannot tame a cat.

In general, we have as natural a right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Damn the expurgated books! I say damn 'em! The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That book had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?"

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Censorship offends me.

Clutch some hope from fear — read banned books.

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