Quotes About Freedom

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.

Give me release. I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy. Give me deliverance. From what only looks like generosity. What only looks like love. Flash.

If you love something... Set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.

It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.

Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.

Get out of here, and do your little life, but remember I'm watching you, Raymond Hessel, and I'd rather kill you than see you working a shit job for just enough money to buy cheese and watch television.

I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are bet­ter things than free­dom. There are worse things than liv­ing a long bored life in some stranger's house and then dy­ing and go­ing to ca­nary heav­en.

The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

I just didn't want to be fixed.

The bad news is we don't have any con­trol. The good news is you can't make any mis­takes.

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.

Tyler, I'm grateful to you; for everything that you've done for me. But this is too much. I don't want this. What do you want? Wanna go back to the shit job, fuckin' condo world, watching sitcoms? Fuck you, I won't do it.

You don't have to con­trol ev­ery­thing," she says. "You can't con­trol ev­ery­thing.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Take full advantage of the complete freedom books provide. To not take advantage of that freedom is to waste the one chief strength of the medium.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything, people in a group assumed the worst. They cried harder. I cried harder. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

It's the sweetest of moments when the fire takes control, and you're no longer responsible for anything.