Quotes About Freedom

Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of "femininity", and really searches for her true self (...) Her disguise gives her the ability to find out about herself, what she really thinks and feels (...). And she can do all this freely, without having anyone in power tell her how women should or should not behave.(...)

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

Parent's are securities that god provide, sometimes god will do the job. But you have the right to select your way. "Decide it", "Choose it", "Move on it"..

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

preferisco essere un vecchio porco che un vecchio sposato!

Lei era tutto. Primo, costituiva una certezza attorno alla quale tutto girava, una certezza di libertà e un senso di sicurezza. E' stata quello che il grande poeta bengalese che cito sempre è riuscito così bene a descrivere, il palo al quale l'elefante si fa legare con un filo di seta. Se l'elefante dà uno strattone può scappare quando vuole, ma non lo tira. Ha scelto di essere legato con un filo di seta a quel palo.

Avanzar, buscar, buscar lo otro. Ocuparse de todo lo que es distinto. Salir de los caminos trazados. Viajar ha sido importantísimo para mí. Esa sensación de descubrimiento ha sido importantísima. Ésa era mi vida, no me detenía nada.

La grande scoperta che ho fatto a Daigo è che si hanno dentro ancora (certo un bel giorno poi no!) tante e tante risorse che basta mettersi nelle condizioni per farle venir fuori. La solitudine, il prender distanza dal mondo, lp star lontano dalle gabbie in cui uno per necessità o per malriposto senso del dovere si mette, servono enormemente. Se ci aggiungi la natura, la formula mi pare infallibile.

Quando i giornali dipendono dalla pubblicità, e la pubblicità è in mano a chi ha il potere politico, come puoi essere libero? Quando i giornali sono posseduti dalle grandi aziende contro le quali non potrai mai scrivere e che hanno i loro interessi politici, come fai a fare del vero giornalismo?

Adoro mezclarme con la multitud y convertime en un viajero más: alguien totalmente liberado de su propio papel, de esa imagen que uno tiene de sí mismo y que a veces se convierte en una jaula tan estrecha como la del cuerpo mismo.

Lubi? pisa? listy. Zawsze my?la?em, ?e gdybym urodzi? si? w bogatej rodzinie i trzysta lat temu tam, gdzie urodzi?em si? w biedzie, we Florencji, chcia?bym tylko podró?owa? po ca?ym ?wiecie, ?eby pisa? listy. Dziennikarstwo do pewnego stopnia pozwoli?ó mi robi? co? podobnego, ale by?em ograniczony i?o?ci? miejsca, terminami, wymogami j?zyka. Teraz w ko?cu mog? po prostu pisa? listy.

Ka?da organizacja jest dla mnie za ciasna. Mam potrzeb? wolno?ci. Taka wolno?c jest m?cz?ca, bo za ka?dym razem w obliczu jakiego? problemu, kiedy trzeba postanowi?, co my?le?, co zrobi?, mo?na odwo?a? si? tylko do w?asnego umys?u, w?asnego serca, a nie do ?atwej, gotowej to u?ytku linii partyjnej albo s?ów jakiej? ?wi?tej ksi?gi.

Die Nacht, die Stimmung auf dem Schiff und wieder dieses völlige Losgelöstsein von der gewöhnlichen Welt hatten mir jenes rauschhafte Freiheitsgefühl erweckt, das meine Droge ist.

I could fly. Nobody ever promised I won't die. Yet without wings I flew And now without regret For promises unkept For things undone Now without much pain I feel like flying yet... again.

When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It's romantic. You'll think I'm nuts for saying it, but sailing is like using a candle compared to using an electric light. It still gets the job done but has much more warmth

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Identity is how I want others to see me and thus always involves a capitulation to one form of social authority or another. Despite the feeling that we really are this identity, it is not the product of our freedom. It is a capitulation to the dictates of the social order. We do not make ourselves who we are, but social and natural determinations structure our identity.

The fight against colonialism is a fight to recognize the universal equality and freedom that colonialism renders invisible. It is not a fight to preserve the particularity of a local culture that European colonialism wiped out.

The universal is what the ruling order doesn't have, not what it does have. In this way, it is always on the side of those fighting on behalf of freedom and equality because they are what is missing, not what is manifested.

No society can include us without simultaneously alienating us from it. My belonging in a society always breaks down, which enables me to turn against this society when it takes a direction that I cannot accept. This is why I am free. Freedom is not a value of belonging, of being a member of a free society. Freedom becomes apparent as a value when we experience our nonbelonging, a nonbelonging that is universal because it applies to everyone, even those who most feel like they fit in.

Universals bring us together not by imposing a common structure on us but by revealing that we share what we don't have and can never have. The fact that no one can have a universal—no one possesses freedom or equality—is the source of their emancipatory quality. Universals are not possessions to have or lose or give away. We don't have to be suspicious of the universals because no one can ever impose them on us, even if someone wanted to.

The contradiction of the state - it creates the subject's singularity by thoroughly submitting its particularity to a universal law - provides the basis for the subject's freedom. Rather than creating the illusion of eliminating contradiction in the way that mutual recognition does, the state constantly confronts the subject with it.