Quotes About Freedom

...yet I am, and have always been, and shall now always be, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points.

It's better to go out and dance in the rain than to stay inside under a leaky roof.

dancing in the rain at nature's cloudy party

I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.

Religion is being locked in and you can't get out; atheism, the other side of the door.

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!

Life begins at retirement.

I'm quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.

Retirement: World's longest coffee break.

Rose with the odd consciousness of being free of my daily task. I have heard that the fish-women go to church of a Sunday with their creels new washed, and a few stones in them for ballast, just because they cannot walk steadily without their usual load. I feel something like them, and rather inclined to take up some light task, than to be altogether idle.

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for.

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul...

The elation of flying is worth the pain of sprouting wings.

Be a rebel against gravity: Skip!

With a light heart and a bounding step, Lucy was skipping...

Skipping is a form of flying.

Skipping is oxygen for the soul.

Skipping by the flowers, Skipping around for hours, Skipping in rain showers — Skipping has magical powers!

Two of the many great things about skipping: 1) It's free. 2) It frees you.

Skipping is the closest we may ever get to flying like the angels.

D'ya ever go for a midnight skip Or an after-dark skinny dip? Exercise your inner child at night, It's twice as fun than in daylight.