Quotes About Freedom

Fly away, fly away over the sea, Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done; Come again, come again, come back to me, Bringing the summer and bringing the sun.

I WISH I WERE A LITTLE BIRD I wish I were a little bird That out of sight doth soar, I wish I were a song once heard But often pondered o'er, Or shadow of a lily stirred By wind upon the floor, Or echo of a loving word Worth all that went before, Or memory of a hope deferred That springs again no more.

It has never worked—it never will. I don't know what you want to hang on to me for. You should have let me go at the beginning. Why did you beg me to marry you at Frederick that day? I would have got another man.

I'm an old woman, your mother's an old woman, so I'll be an old woman, and I'll do what I please.

Christina Wilsdon

You spoilt, pathetic bitch. I'm not going to be there for you any more, Hephzibah, not in the way you want me to be. Do you understand that? Whatever is given to you is never enough. You want to take away bigger and bigger pieces of me until there's nothing left. You do that to everyone. You wanted to keep me here, like a prisoner, a slave, didn't you? But you can't. It's over.

If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed into subjects of the government they failed to keep in check.

She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

The answer to the problem must not lie in sleeping pills and suicides that look like accidents, or in jail sentences, but rather in life and the freedom to live it. Yes, in considering the possibilities of removing and transplanting, perhaps science is reaching beyond the acceptance of current medical practice, but does that justify refusing to do it? Where would the world be without the Pasteurs and Ehrlichs to reach out and do the impossible?

It was a common practice for news writers to make public proclamations as to what I was, or was not. It seemed to me that the selection of sex determination should lie with the individual in an effort to live freely, so long as it was to no one else's disadvantage.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Le tumulte et le désordre de notre esprit diminuent notre libre arbitre, le rendent esclave de nos émotions, c'est-à-dire des circonstances.

Cuál es el régimen político más inhumano? El que decreta el bien del hombre.

Habíamos perdido nuestras capacidades físicas y morales de imaginar la libertad.

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

Real strength isn't control. It's knowing when to let go.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

The grandiose person is never really free. First, because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail with far-reaching consequences.

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Did you enjoy prison?' Mitchell asked. When they started asking really stupid questions was when you knew you'd truly pissed them off. 'Do you want to go back there?' 'To be honest, if it was between prison and connecting in Terminal Five at Heathrow, I'd choose T5. Just. So no.

Justice is not a static ideal; it is not the maintenance of some steady state in society. The accent in biblical justice falls on positive action, the exercising of power to resist the oppressor and set the oppressed free. This is why Amos pictures justice as a thundering river that than as in the Western tradition, a neatly balanced set of scales [Amos 5:21-24].

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.