Quotes About Freedom

And I'm not asking you to let her go. I'm telling you.

Nada tenía sentido en su plan. Pero ¿qué más daba? Muy de vez en cuando, todo el mundo tenía derecho a cometer alguna locura, y ahora era su turno.

Studeren was niet het echte leven. Het was een fantasiewereld, dat wist ze, en totaal anders dan de wereld waarin ze over een paar maanden terecht zou komen. In tegenstelling tot een echte baan, begonnen haar colleges pas om tien uur en waren ze vaak rond twee uur afgelopen. Avonden en weekenden werden meestal alleen maar aan plezier, gezelligheid en het verleggen van grenzen besteed.

Creo que puedes hacer lo que quieras. Al final, cada uno vive la vida que ha elegido vivir.

And we're talking about a girl who's ready to 'Romance the Stone.' She wants to 'Free Willy.' pg. 49

Not like Mr. My Dog Shall Be Free and I Don't Work Fridays.

Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine -- with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets.

When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.

Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.

freedom to speak includes the freedom to be wrong.

Wechsler and the New York Times showed that Adams' two immediate successors as president, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as many others, regarded Adams' political censorship of 'seditious' newspapers that criticised the state as a clear breach of the First Amendment and an attack on democracy.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.

Well, I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song.

In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn.

that night taught me one of life's most useful lessons, one of the only pieces of advice I have to offer to younger generations: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT!

See, I've always been afraid of marriage because of, you know, ball and chain, I want my freedom, all that. But when I was thinking about that stupid girl I suddenly saw it was the opposite: that if you got married to someone you know you love, and you sort yourself out, it frees you up for other things.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?

sod-that-for-a-lark floating

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers—small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are.

names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

The way to win our heart back is to venture again, to risk giving, receiving and trusting again, and of course to risk getting hurt again, but deciding to forgive and to no longer use the hurt or fear to keep ourselves in prison.