Quotes About Freedom

The children danced on. They were alive; that is all that mattered. They lived for the moment. They danced when they could, and died when they would.

If there is one thing I disapprove of it's the unnatural capture and taming of wild animals, whether an elephant or a bird. To me, the only good cage is an empty cage.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within.

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Don't Let That Horse . . ." from A Coney Island of the Mind. Don't let that horse eat that violin cried Chagall's mother But he kept right on painting And became famous And kept on painting The Horse With Violin In Mouth And when he finally finished it he jumped up upon the horse and rode away waving the violin And then with a low bow gave it to the first naked nude he ran across And there were no strings attached

Paper may burn but words will escape.

I have heard a hundred housebroken Ezra Pounds. They should all be freed. It is long since I was a herdsman.

They were unmasked now, I saw them all for what they were, little sons and daughters of the eternal poor, the Lumpenproletariat, made only for slavery, for continued slavery. They wanted 'liberty' for everyone, in the abstract, but they couldn't give full liberty to anyone to act on his own!

Fuck Art, let's Dance!

I have seen giraffes in junglejims their necks like love wound around the iron circumstances of the world.

Let us arise and go now to the Isle of Manisfree and live the true blue simple life of wisdom and wonderment where all things grow straight up aslant and singing in the yellow sun poppies out of cowpods thinking angels out of turds. I must arise and go now to the Isle of Manisfree way up behind the broken words and woods of Arcady.

Mejor reinar en el infierno que ser esclavos en el Cielo!».

el peligro del «amable robot», una criatura nacida en la sociedad de masas con la ilusión de la libertad, pero incapaz de influir en nada en las grandes estructuras del poder. «Entre la escasa conciencia del hombre y los temas de nuestro tiempo, parece existir un velo de indiferencia. Su voluntad parece anestesiada; su vitalidad, encogida».

Cualquier cliente puede tener un coche pintado del color que quiera, siempre que sea negro».

It is not uncommon for the cyclist, in the first flush of enthusiasm which quickly follows the unpleasantness of taming the steel steed, to remark, 'Wheeling is just like flying!' This is true in more ways than one.… Both modes of travel are riding upon the air, though in one case a small quantity of air is carried in a bag and in the other the air is unbagged.… To learn to wheel one must learn to balance; to learn to fly one must learn to balance.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.