Quotes About Freedom

Secret Self is your royal nature. Like the kingly condition that it is, it knows about you what you have yet to learn about yourself. Let it reveal to you its secret kingdom. It belongs to you. You receive a portion of this kingdom each time you refuse to be captured by the common and choose instead in favor of the celestial. The stars are your birthright. We must look beyond the sparrow to the skies through which it wings.

There is one last thing I would wish for you to know, and to know this truth without any doubt. It will save you, literally, from endless years of futile search and struggle. And it is certain that you will come to know this rescuing power as long as you choose it before all else. Here it is: You have the right to live without being compromised by any negative state.

Begin with the higher fact that you are not here on earth to live up to anyone's expectations—including your own. There is something much higher for you to be in this life than to spend your days doing what only strains and drains you. Your True Self knows that there is only one supreme command: you need never answer any demand that causes you pain or that asks you to sacrifice your integrity.

I... would not expect that freedom could be found or won without a price paid.

Could one forget how to be free?

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Dai Peters was due to retire at the end of the month.

He lived for the sea and his one wish was that he would not die on dry land.

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social justice that reflects the intrinsically social or collective character of society's wealth. In the writer's view, social justice is the most important rationale for moving towards basic income as an economic right, although it is complementary to the other two major rationales, namely freedom and economic security.

She had thought freedom meant simply the chance to have her own way, with no need to take the consequences of having had it. Well, she knew better now. Life was not a lot of golden adventures that cost you nothing.

The beauty of having nothing to lose is that you have everything to gain

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want — it's like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates. And Mabbie was all of seven. And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar. And Mabbie thought life was heaven.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.

Szerintem ti semmit sem tudtok magatokról, minthogy sose voltatok évekig magánzárkába zárva.

I'd love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn't bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree's.

Bolívar resumió el desengaño en una frase: "Hemos ganado la independencia a costa de perder todo lo demás".

those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air.

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore-language. She lets the other language speak—the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back, it makes possible.

To fly/steal is woman's gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!

Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise. That is not obliged to reproduce the system. That is writing. If there is a somewhere else that can escape the infernal repetition, it lies in that direction, where it writes itself, where it dreams, where it invents new worlds.