Quotes About Freedom

Il ne s'agit pas de choisit son époque, mais de se choisir en elle.

The simplest, most indefinable quality had too much content, in relation to itself, in its heart.

I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.

Quand une fois la liberté a explosé dans une âme d'homme, les Dieux ne peuvent plus rien contre cet homme-là. Car c'est une affaire d'homme, et c'est aux autres hommes — à eux seuls — qu'il appartient de le laisser courir ou de l'étrangler.

Je ne suis ni le maître ni l'esclave, Jupiter. Je suis ma liberté! À peine m'as-tu créé que j'ai cessé de t'appartenir

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois : c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres, Égisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

Thirdly, the existent individual is impassioned, impassioned with a passionate thought; he is inspired; he is a kind of incarnation of the infinite in the finite. This passion which animates the existent (and this brings us to the fourth characteristic) is what Kierkegaard calls "the passion of freedom.

Todavía no estoy en el infierno y ya tengo mis pequeñas costumbres de condenado.

They are as unfree as Roquentin, yet they hide the terrible imprisonment of their existences by unthinkingly getting up, going out to work, relaxing on Sundays, and so on. They wrongly imagine that they have chosen this form of life, when of course it has chosen them.

One cannot help reflecting on the irony that the celebrated philosopher of freedom, the great atheist, maintained an almost religious faith in an ideology that vandalized the very face of freedom. In fact, Sartre was largely unpolitical during the 1930s (he did not vote), and Nausea is political only, as it were, at its margins.

Wiem bardzo dobrze, ?e nie chc? nic robi?: czyni? cokolwiek to stwarza? istnienie – a jest i tak wiele istnienia.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.

You know I've had work banned.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.