Quotes About Freedom

I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bullshit about 'sanctity' — don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

All I know is that now my little bird has nothing, except what appears to be a comfortable spot to begin his inevitable return to unconstrained atoms, some of which may float to the sky, or in my window.

When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.

Freedom is not the greatest thing; how we decide to use our freedom is the greatest thing.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. —DRIEU LA ROCHELLE,

history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself.

Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) was the man who defined the Communist world as the first society in history condemned to live behind walls in order to stop people getting out.

In whichever way a democratic system might be sick, terrorism does not heal it, it kills it. Democracy is healed with democracy. —VIRGINIO ROGNONI,

Sartre's existentialism, where it essentially means having the chutzpah to do what it takes so that you may suit yourself—not quite the same thing as being true to yourself.)

and took up arms again as a Resistance fighter in World War II. He was caught, tortured and executed in 1944.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one's land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one's government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others – which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not.

Lose it for yourself, if you want to, but not for anyone else.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

We're all aloneNo chaperonCan get our number,The world's in slumber,Let's misbehave.

If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.

As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom.