Quotes About Freedom

Finché giunsi in vista del mare. Il mare mi turbò, e mi misi a piangere. Nulla, né fiume, né pianura, né montagna, e neppure un albero, neppure una nuvola, dà l'idea della libertà quanto il mare.

Dirò che, nel concetto dei toscani, chi non è un uomo libero è un uomo grullo.

As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.

It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue our race in freedom.

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).

It has been observed that none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free.

Life and rest are found in having a relationship with the living God, not in keeping a set of man-made rules.

There could be no home for the Tillermans. Home free — Dicey would settle for a place to stay. Stay free.

Bullet shrugged. She was right, it would just be another box. It was going to be just another box for him, too, but he'd figured it out. You didn't get out of one box without getting into another, and you didn't get out of one box without getting into another, and you didn't get out without it costing you. For himself, he was just looking for a box that fit him. For her - what he was hoping to do was just loosen a board or two for her. It was up to her what she did about that.

As best she could, in her secluded position, she was considering how she might secure further choices, and what they might be — once this, her first free choice, had played itself out.

Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

La libertad hermosa y pura de una mujer era infinitamente más maravillosa que cualquier amor sexual. La única desgracia era que los hombres estuvieran tan retrasados en este asunto con respecto a las mujeres. Insistían en la cosa del sexo como perros.

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so behind women in the matter. They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so far behind women in the matter. They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.

And they tramped off to the forests with sturdy youths bearing guitars, twang-twang!

he was beginning to be himself. And now he wanted madly to be free to go on. A home, his work, and absolute freedom to move and to be, in her, with her, this was his passionate desire. He thought in a kind of ecstasy, living an hour of painful intensity.

Exactly, I will lay down the law for nobody, not even myself. The thought of death and the afterlife saves me from doing any more. . . . As the thought of Eternity helps me.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.