Quotes About Freedom

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

If after I am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

What are you? To define is to limit.

all walls were destined to fall, no matter what.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

Quando le parole perdono di senso, i popoli perdono la loro libertà.

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.

Explain! Perhaps you'd like to explain it to me, too. I'm not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can't go." And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought.

I'm not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can't go." And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought. "I

The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom, The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.