Quotes About Freedom

Freedom is an illusion. But, liberty from manumission is attainable.

Life on the plantation can be calm. You can even be happy and find fulfillment on the plantation. It may be possible to be friends with the plantation owner. Heck, the plantation owner might even let you run the plantation. But, all of these privileges are only afforded to you as long as you stay on the plantation.

Mathematics is the most beautiful world. Everyone has their own entry key and the freedom to discover as much of it as they want.

Once you've tasted freedom every choice you make thereafter is your own.

Privilege escalation is akin to freedom, and since I've deduced equality to be irrelevant, winning with no debt is what freedom is all about.

You ask for a savior, and you become their slave.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

We had all thought things would be quite different when we first came to France. The words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were painted in giant letters over the door of the building we were in.

And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive expression to abandon.

The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.

There's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

The feeling was not of being attractive precisely, but rather of not having to entertain. It was breathtaking: to be ensconced in another person's company, yet to be relieved of the relentless minute-by-minute obligation to redeem one's existence - for there is some sense in which socially we are all on the Late Show, grinning, throwing off nervous witticisms, and crossing our legs, as a big hook behind the curtains lurks in the wings.

If you take that away from me, and every other opportunity to not quite toe the line," Willing said, "then however many amusing things I'm at liberty to do, I don't feel free. If I don't feel free, I'm not free." I don't feel free, Willing did not add, and I have not felt free since you and yours jammed this fleck of metal into my neck.

What do you make of the proposition that the definition of a truly free society is a place where you can still get away with something?

The very best thing about getting old was basking in this great big not-giving-a-shit.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.

God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means "anointed or Christlike one." Jesus did not go around "being good"; he went around "doing good" and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?

Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.

Beautiful things should not be kept behind glass, they should be used. Just as beautiful women should live fully and not let herself turn into a hothouse flower, pampered and useless.

She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The world held in the pages of history felt like the real world, and the present day an illusion she had to suffer through until she could escape back into the pages of a book.