Quotes About Freedom

You lack freedom, so you fantasize about it.

Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.

Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

It would be years before it was operating the way a proper city should - which is to say, messily, but more or less freely and honestly, with its citizens accountable to one another and to those they've chosen to represent them, rather than to entities, spectral or otherwise, whose own interests are not in the interest of the people.

Oh, yes," said Kate with a laugh. "When I was seven I ran away from the orphanage to join the circus. They brought me back, but I just ran away again, and I kept running away every time they brought me back. Eventually it was agreed that I could join the circus and save everybody a lot of trouble. So that's what I've been doing the past few years. It's been great fun, too

You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trousers, shoes, and a shirt.

You can eat whatever and whenever you want, so long as it's during meal hours in the cafeteria.

You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night.

You can go wherever you want around the Institute, so long as you keep to the paths and the yellow-tiled corridors.

Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Equality implies individuality.

She longed for the hour when she could relax and release the breath she seemed to have been holding for years. She

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Throughout time, certain consensus beliefs have imprisoned us, kept us from evolving as a species, as individuals.

Listen. You hear it? Trees. Wind. Pushing us to freedom.

Sex-positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young

Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners.

Open relationships can give you the freedom to create unique relationships, explore yourself and your sexuality, and challenge society's expectations.

People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other.

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918