Quotes About Freedom

Stories are where I live - they are physical three-dimensional places to me. When I was a kid and locked in the coal hole for various crimes, I had a choice: count coal - a limited activity. Tell myself a story - an unlimited world of the imagination.

Sanat s?rad???d?r; al???lagelmiÅŸ yöntemle onu ehlileÅŸtirerek ya da yemleyerek kal?plara sokmaya çal??mak nafiledir. Kim hayvanat bahçesine gidip de aslan? biraz olsun anlam?? ki?

Fictional characters are the original avatars for writer and reader alike. In this place of freedom we can choose who we want to be. And we can find a spectrum of feeling, experience, sexuality, even anger or murder, not available in daily life.

A book is like magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it, you step through.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered. (Bk2:8)

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are. -

Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before.

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.

T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

If I had remained free, obscure, and alone placed in the situation Nature designed me for, I should have done nothing but what was right, for my heart bears not the feeds of any mischievous passion. Had I been invisible and powerful as the Almighty, I should have been benevolent and good like him: it is power and freedom that make good men, weakness and slavery never made any but wicked ones.

The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.