Quotes About Freedom

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions but also of entire world views, he is the inventor of entire forms of life.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous.

Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of Communism, it can return to its true historical path—fascism.

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

Ah, oui, pauvre papillon. C'est un de mes prisonniers

As he later remarked, sometimes freedom can become as repressive as direct repression.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars... Anything is possible on a train...

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

Solitary people make the best travellers

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is bliss

To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss.

I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts

All solitary travel offers a sort of special license allowing you to be anyone you want to be

and the relief of being able to walk around without having to search for a parking place added to the pleasure of strolling

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere if you're not in a hurry.