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Quotes About Freedom

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~ Colette
It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a ladder or a knotted rope and he will carry me away on a motorcycle, off to a den where his subjects will be assembled. He'll say: 'Here is your new Queen.' And... and... it will be terrible!" viii. Their Queen is away and anarchy reigns! The Journal said so! How grand to be Queen, with a red ribbon and a revolver...
~ Colette
A woman claims as many native lands as she had happy love affairs, Likewise, she is born under every sky where she recovers from the pain of loving.
~ Colette
just because you can you does not mean you have to
~ Unknown
Human legs, Annie, are always too short, toes never fit, and people are thankfully almost always totally preoccupied with either subversion, defiance or escape.
~ Unknown
I am an advisor to prime ministers and presidents – a man loved and admired by the masses. I deserve my house and, damn it, I should be allowed to decide what I do with it. If I so wish to cover it in ice cream and lick it, that is my prerogative.' Mr
~ Unknown
There are many branches and brands of neoliberalism, but behind them stands one dominant theme: that free markets in which individuals maximize their material interests provide the best means for satisfying human aspirations, and that markets are in particular to be preferred over states and politics, which are at best inefficient and at worst threats to freedom.
~ Unknown
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
~ Heraclitus
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
~ Herb Ritts
Und ganz am Ende, in den freien Raum unter dem letzten Marchen, hatte sie mit ihrer windschiefen Schrift geschrieben: Und sie lebten glucklich und zufrieden. Paul und Ida auch.
~ Unknown
S? r?mâi pentru totdeauna o omid? urât?, care se târ??te pe p?mânt, ve?nic înfometat?, nu este pl?cut. Dac? îns? omida consimte s? sufere o metamorfoz? profund?, ea poate deveni unul dintre cei mai frumo?i fluturi, liber s? c?l?toreasc? pe o pal? de vânt c?tre înaltul cerului.
~ Unknown
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
~ Herbert Hoover
The American system of rugged individualism.
~ Herbert Hoover
You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no effective control. Similarly
~ Herbert Marcuse
The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
~ Herbert Marcuse
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. The
~ Herbert Marcuse
The true history of mankind will be, in the strict sense, the history of free individuals, so that the interest of the whole will be woven into the individual existence of each.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this kind of freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.
~ Herbert Marcuse
La libera elezione di padroni e schiavi, non elimina né i padroni né gli schiavi" Herbert Marcuse "L'uomo a una dimensione
~ Herbert Marcuse
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~ Herbert Marcuse
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~ Herbert Marcuse