Quotes About Freedom

She thought, as she would often for many years, of the photograph from that day, with the one golden feather inside it: Was it a portrait of her, or her daughter? Was she the bird trying to batter its way out, or was she the cage?

Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

She thought, as she would often for many years, of the photograph from that day, with the one golden feather inside it: Was it a portrait of her, or her daughter? Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

He never completed the sentence, but in his imagined future, he floated away, untethered.

Her womb was not an apartment for rent.

Don't ever smile if you don't want to,' she said.

Everything that loomed so large close up—school, their parents, their lives—all you had to do was step away, and they shrank to nothing. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

While the Irish and the Germans and the Swedes crowded onto steamship decks, waving as the pale green torch of the Statue of Liberty came into view, the coolies had to find other means to reach the land where all men were created equal.

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Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the care?

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

You can't just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?

He wonders who decided which books were too dangerous to keep, and who it was that had to hunt down and collect the condemned books, like an executioner, ferrying them to their doom.

in Mia's accepting presence she'd become curious and kind and open, as if under a magic spell. She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as if she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

Tarih yaz?c?l??? özgürle?tirmiyorsa zulme hizmet ediyordur

Seçme hürriyetimizin s?n?rs?z oldu?u tek dünya, kitaplar dünyas?d?r.

Y???n kad?nd?r. Irz?n? teslim edecek bir zorba arar. Çobans?z rahat edemeyen kaz sürüsü.

Siyasî hürriyet dedikleri ferdin devlete ve kanunlara teslimiyetinden ibaret.

?lham kaynaklar? Eski Yunan'?n iki remiz ismi: Dionizos-Apollon. Birincisi, romantizmin temsilcisi., hamle, macera, aray??, hürriyet. ?kincisi, klasisizmin.. sanat, tasannu, dam?tma ve süzme. Oysa kemal, ikisinin kayna?mas? de?il mi? Her büyük romantik, klasik olmak zorundad?r. Romantizmle kanatlanmayan klasisizm içi bo? bir mahfaza. Ölümsüz abideler çift mimar?n eseri: Dionizos-Apollon.

Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more general thus: every act of authority of one man over another, for which there is not an absolute necessity, is tyrannical.

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via.

And then we cowards who loved the whispering evening, the houses, the paths by the river, the dirty red lights of those places, the sweet soundless sorrow— we reached our hands out toward the living chain in silence, but our heart startled us with blood, and no more sweetness then, no more losing ourselves on the path by the river— no longer slaves, we knew we were alone and alive. (Translated By Geoffrey Brock)

L'unica gioia al mondo è cominciare. È bello vivere perché vivere è cominciare, sempre, ad ogni istante. Quando manca questo senso – prigione, malattia, abitudine, stupidità –, si vorrebbe morire.