Quotes About Freedom

I don't have to wonder where he he, what he's doing, or who. I don't have to worry about all the ways he'll scar my son. I don't have to watch myself give in again and again, audience to my own relentless weakness. I thought if he were gone I wouldn't hate myself so much, which isn't true, as it turns out, but still his absence is as close as I can get to freedom. There's a certain clearheadedness now, there's a kind of lonely clarity--

Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.

Live the life you choose and enjoy the happiness and regret that comes with that life. ~Yong-Kum

the world learned that Lady Liberty will shove her torch of freedom up your ass if you fuck with us.

sweeping relaxation of civil liberties

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

Some folks require the park's wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.