Quotes About Freedom

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

A prisoner of love is a person who is passionately in love. Losing that passion will set him free

Freedom of mind is the ultimate prove of persistence." A person, whose mind is not free though he may not be in prison, he is a prisoner and not a free man

A society can never be free without women's liberation

I know it's only Rock & Roll, but I like it.

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

I know it's only Rock & Roll, but I like it." ? The Rolling Stones

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Where's jazz going? I don't know. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a one-foot chain.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

No emancipation without that of society.

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

In contrast to the Kantian, the categorical imperative of the culture industry no longer has anything in common with freedom. It proclaims: you shall conform, without instruction as to what; conform to that which exists anyway as a reflex of its power and omnipresence. The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness.

Ich fürchte nicht die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Faschisten, sondern die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Demokraten.

Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.

Both high art and industrially produced consumer art] bear the stigmata of capitalism, both contain elements of change. Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which, however, they do not add up.

The task of thought is to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.

Se se quisesse responder à questão sem asserções ideológicas, torna-se-ia imperiosa a suspeita de que o tempo livre tende em direção contrária à de seu próprio conceito, tornando-se paródia, deste. Nele se prolonga a não-liberdade tão desconhecida da maioria das pessoas não-livres como a sua não-liberdade em si mesma.