Quotes About Freedom

I promised he would be free from all this. I lied.

The curse is broken. The king is returned.

humans live much longer in captivity than they do in the wild.

What a freeing thought it was to no longer believe I had to deserve something in order to get it.

Once, the thing I am wearing was a sundress, with fluttery sleeves. A diaphanous white gown that flowed around me when I spun. I found it in a shop late one night. I'd stripped off the clothes given to me in the Court of Teeth, left them behind, and put that on instead. I liked the dress so much that I wove myself a crown of hellebores and danced through the night streets. I stared at myself in puddles, convinced that as long as I didn't smile, I might even be pretty.

You want me to free him? Let's gut him like haddock. Quicker and far more satisfying.

No one in chains could ever truly love you.

What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Dü?üncelerimi kendi üzerime çevirerek dü?ündüm: Kendisinin de özgür kalmas?n? dileyecek kadar sevmiyordu beni. Sevgi suç i?lemekten kaç?n?rsa s?n?r? var gibi görünür bize; oysa sevgi sonsuz olmal?d?r. Kalbim korkunç burkuldu. "Sevmiyor beni!" diye dü?ündüm.

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

If you don't think for yourself, then you're admitting that your theory of happiness is the old dog asleep in the sun.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

You can decide to forgo any ethical deliberations and simply embrace the moral beliefs and norms you inherited from your family and culture. But this approach undermines your freedom, for if you accept without question whatever moral beliefs come your way, they are not really yours. Only if you critically examine them for yourself are they truly yours.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.

In order to fly, you have to be free.

I had now tasted freedom, and I couldn't lie to myself about that.

why do we waste ourselves at twenty scrambling for positions just so we can work for someone else?

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.