Quotes About Freedom

L'argent qu'on possède est l'instrument de la liberté ; celui qu'on pourchasse est celui de la servitude.

There are in all ages men born to be in bondage to the opinions of the society in which they live.

L'indépendance que je croyais avoir acquise était le seul sentiment qui m'affectait. Libre et maître de moi-même, je croyais pouvoir tout faire, atteindre à tout : je n'avais qu'à m'élancer pour m'élever et voler dans les airs.

Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.

He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.

She loved to run. She could run forever. And she loved exploring every nook and cranny of the city, which was what a messenger got to do.

Please just let us choose and get it over with.

Is there something you're interested in? I mean, if you could really turn your life around and follow your dreams, if you didn't have to worry about us or the money, what would you want to do?

There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.

Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

There was nothing to compare with standing on a ice of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?

Life is too short to worry about what other people think

Freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one

With the Internet, characters like Drudge could pursue—without the constraints and rules imposed by editors and institutions—

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other's imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.