Quotes About Freedom

They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves.

I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower.

The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off.

I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do and think by advertisements, cinemas, policemen, and parliaments.

Do not give up hope entirely in spite of the horror of your situation. I am mobilising all my mental capacities to obtain your unconditional freedom.

We see before us a series of events which follow one another and are conditioned by one another. I say 'conditioned' I certainly do not mean conditioned through absolute necessity. The important point is that human freedom makes its appearance everywhere, and the greatest attraction of history lies in the fact that it deals with the scenes of that freedom.

Should I belong to one man whom I do not love, only because I loved him once? No, I cannot renounce Ã¢â'¬â€œ I love him who pleases me and if he loves me, I make him happy. Is that so awful? It is at least much better than if I were to cruelly revel in the torments that my charms inspire and prudishly turn away from the one who is in love with me. I am young, beautiful and so I live happily for pleasure and desire.

I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.

Imagination comes of not having things.

The imagination is the only part of us that cannot be shackled. It is the irreducible essence of who we are, and it is that which allows us to see into our future. Einstein said, "The imagination is the preview of what is to come.

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

Puppets go to sleep the moment they break free from their strings.

She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.

Cu o cutezan?? nebun?, de parc? încerca s?-ÅŸi recapete astfel libertatea, îÅŸi l?s? trupul s? se topeasc? în al lui ÅŸi buzele lor se unir? într-un s?rut atât de intens, încât o l?s? f?r? aer.

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

A free spirit myself, I secretly admired a freer one. To deny his right to chose his own path, was to deny myself that right, too.

She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows.

Technically, the song's a mess. It follows no known conventional nor commercial formula. It is just a string of dreams, flashbacks, flash-forwards, vignettes, completely disjointed ideas. It changes sequence, color, tone, tempo, all for

The people who make a difference in history are those who fight for freedom - not because they're guaranteed to succeed - but because it's the right thing to do. And that's the kind of fighters that history demands today. Not those who worship the accomplished fact. Not those who can only believe in what is visible today. But instead, people of conscience who dedicate their lives to what needs to be won, and what can be won.

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.

It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

it was important for the people to understand that all around them lay human slavery, although most recently it had been called by other names. Everyone was or had been a slave to some other person or to something that was controlled by another. Most people were not free.

He had been thinking about how easy it was to stay alive now that he didn't care about being alive anymore.

and she always came away with a sense of relief that she could leave. The place