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Quotes About Freedom

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
~ Will Rogers
I felt myself like a foolish bird, a bird born in a cage without power to attain freedom... I walked along the fields, by the neat iron railing with which they were enclosed. All about me was visible the care of man. Nature herself seemed under the power of the formal influence, and flourished with rigidity and decorum. Nothing was left wild. The trees were lopped into proper shape, cut down here where their presence seemed inelegant and planted there to complete the symmetry of a group.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, 1900
He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.
~ Jack London
That night, he pointed his nose to the cold stars and gave the long wolf-howl.
~ Jack London
You are my Avis," he said, "and you are also some one else. You are two women, and therefore you are my harem. At any rate, we are safe now. If the United States becomes too hot for us, why, I have qualified for citizenship in Turkey.
~ Jack London
a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.
~ Jack London
but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
~ Jack London
Le persone d'eccezionale valore sono simili alle grandi aquile solitarie che volano molto in alto nell'azzurro, al disopra della terra e della sua superficiale meschinità.
~ Jack London
nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.
~ Jack London
non bisogna essere schiavi che della bellezza. La serva e mandi al diavolo la folla imbecille. Il successo!
~ Jack London
The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.
~ Jack London
He knew he was at last answering the call, running by the side of his wood brother toward the place from where the call surely came. Old memories were coming upon him fast, and he was stirring to them as of old he stirred to the realities of which they were the shadows. He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.
~ Jack London
Sizin diÅŸleriniz sökülmüÅŸtür baylar, t?rnaklar?n?z köreltilmiÅŸtir! DiÅŸsiz ve t?rnaks?z ayaklanaca??n?z gün bir koyun sürüsü kadar zarars?z ve yumuÅŸak bir durumda olacaks?n?z!
~ Jack London
I oto zew doszedÅ' Bucka, nieomylny, zdobyty, prawdziwy. SiadÅ' wiÄ™c równie? i równie? zawyÅ'.
~ Jack London
Ben yine de kendi hazlar?m?, insanoÄŸlunun ittifakla verdiÄŸi hükümlerden önemsiz görmeyeceÄŸim. EÄŸer bir ÅŸeyi sevmediysem sevmedim demektir, o kadar. Åžu güneÅŸin alt?ndaki hiçbir sebep sadece türdeÅŸlerim çoÄŸunluk olarak onu beÄŸeniyor diye o beÄŸeniyi benim de taklit etmemi gerektirme. HoÅŸland???m ya da hoÅŸlanmad???m ÅŸeylerde moday? takip edecek deÄŸilim.
~ Jack London
Ben yine de kendi hazlar?m?, insanoÄŸlunun ittifakla verdiÄŸi hükümlerden önemsiz görmeyeceÄŸim. EÄŸer bir ÅŸeyi sevmediysem sevmedim demektir, o kadar. Åžu güneÅŸin alt?ndaki hiçbir sebep sadece türdeÅŸlerim çoÄŸunluk olarak onu beÄŸeniyor diye o beÄŸeniyi benim de taklit etmemi gerektirmez. HoÅŸland???m ya da hoÅŸlanmad???m ÅŸeylerde moday? takip edecek deÄŸilim.
~ Jack London
The Complete Novels of Jack London
~ Jack London
Buck possedeva una qualità necessaria alla grandezza, la fantasia.
~ Jack London
Se é isto que a civilização tem para oferecer ao homem, então mil vezes o estado selvagem, a nudez e os uivos, mil vezes viver no deserto e na brenha, no covil e na caverna, em vez de trucidado pela máquina e pelo Abismo!
~ Jack London
He came to her breathing of large airs and great spaces. The blaze of tropic suns was in his face, and in his swelling, resilient muscles was the primordial vigor of life. He was marred and scarred by that mysterious world of rough men and rougher deeds, the outposts of which began beyond her horizon.
~ Jack London
have been prisoner, slave, fugitive, and now king, which I prefer.
~ Jack Vance
There's an elemental mystery to the universe: the why of things. Everyone is free to speculate. I speak not for atheism, but against compulsory theism, or compulsory dogma of any kind.
~ Jack Vance
Humanity many times has had sad experience of super-powerful police forces … As soon as (the police) slip from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves.
~ Jack Vance
The streaming and twisting of the horsehair in the wind beckoned the owner ever onward, luring him away from this spot to seek another, to find better pasture, to explore new opportunities and adventures, to create his own fate in his life in this world.
~ Jack Weatherford