Quotes About Freedom

La historia del amor es inseparable de la historia de la libertad de la mujer.

better to be stoned in the plaza than to turn the mill that squeezes out the juice of life, that turns eternity into empty hours, minutes into prisons, and time into copper coins and abstract shit

Freedom is not a philosophy, nor it is even an idea. It is a movement of consciousness that lead us, at certain moments, to utter one of two monosyllables: Yes or No. In their brevity, lasting but an instant, like a flash of lighting, the contradictory character of human nature stands revealed.

Pero los amantes siempre encuentran un instante para escapar de las tenazas de la ideología. Ese instante es diminuto e inmenso, dura lo que dura un parpadeo y es largo como un siglo... Para los amantes del cuerpo piensa y el alma se toca, es palpable.

La poesía es el punto de intersección entre el poder divino y la libertad humana.

Ahora bien, todo desprendimiento provoca una herida

El amor es una apuesta, insensata, por la libertad. No la mía, la ajena.

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.

competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦

There's nothing like a Harley-Davidson for getting around mud holes, rocks, and wagon ruts on dirt roads—or for making an impression on girls.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?

Throw a puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.

Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.

We have nothing to do but listen,' said Harriet, and she suddenly realized how happy she was here with Guy, come out of his seclusion to be a companion of this freedom that, having neither past nor future, was a lacuna in time; a gift of leisure that need only be accepted and enjoyed.

freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and step out and dance—to live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self-doubt.

Forgiveness is.... giving up the hope that you can change the past.