Quotes About Freedom

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

A magnificient life is waiting just around the corner, and far, far away. It is waiting like the cake is waiting when there's butter, milk, flour and sugar. This is the realm of freedom. It is an empty realm. Here man's maginificent power over nature has left him alone with himself, powerless. It is the boredom of youth without a future.

not until he has recognized and organized his own energies as social energies (and we shall presently see the exact meaning of these terms), i.e., when the political form and power (the state) no longer exist outside him, above him—not until then is human (as distinguished from political) emancipation achieved. The road leading to freedom is full of obstacles and accidents, especially the political emancipations that are mistaken for true liberations.

Je m'en faisais une belle image, moi, de la liberté. Un truc sacré, presque, un truc dont on fait des statues.

La liberté, il y en a partout. Il faut juste avoir le courage de la prendre.

On peut être libre à plusieurs, j'ai dit. Moi, j'ai connu des solitudes qui ressemblaient vachement à des prisons.

Essaie de ne jamais oublier les rêves. La vie, les gens, tous essaieront de t'empêcher d'être libre. La liberté, c'est un boulot de tous les jours. Un boulot à plein temps.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.

What I dream of is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter, an art that can be for any intellectual worker, for the business man or the writer, a means of soothing the soul, something like a comfortable armchair in which one can rest from physical fatigue.

To arrive is to be in prison.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc." -Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.

Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.