Quotes About Freedom

A culture of discipline involves a duality. On the one hand, it requires people who adhere to a consistent system; yet, on the other hand, it gives people freedom and responsibility within the framework of that system.

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.

Zygmunt Bauman, "Living Without an Alternative

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.

Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich--which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free--to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.

Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.

Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.

I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!

Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!

I wandered from village to village. A few days here, half a year there, like a butterfly on the summer's breath.

priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain

There's no key to the woods and fields.

There's no key to the woods and fields.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

The United States was an empire not for the purpose of subjugation or exploitation, but for the aspiration of advancing the expressly articulated ideals of the United Nations, the Atlantic Charter, and NATO: namely, the right of nations to stand free from outside coercion or subversion of peoples to chart their own destiny.

Language liberates as it offends. Confidential taught me that.

Judith:And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer? Deerslayer: She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain - in the dew on the open grass - the clouds that float about in the blue heavens - the birds that sing in the woods - the sweet springs where I slake my thirst - and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I think love is a rare thing in the World. If you think you have it with this Girl, then fuck whoever tries to stop you and fuck their Rules. Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

That's how life works. You know it when you know it. They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here. They're on a sixteen-line highway. Driving west.

I want to run or die or get fucked up