Quotes About Freedom

You have few responsibilities, few worries, few challenges. Although this may seem to be a satisfactory arrangement for you, it is time for you to consider the price you pay to maintain your dependence. It costs you your will, your freedom, and your pride. It costs you your very self.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

She wanted out of that decorating scheme.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.

Olivia lit a cigarette and said, God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!

We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

Ha a feje megtelt zenével, végre el tudott szabadulni a testétÅ'l.

Cecila was weird, but we're not. And then: We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Greatness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable.

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.

Like Jefferson, Brandeis believed that the greatest threat to our constitutional liberties was an uneducated citizenry, and that democracy could not survive both ignorant and free. And

The Court is the guardian of the Bill of Rights, and it should see to it that Congress remembers that Congress is to pass no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.

So, my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.

Anything entering or exiting any orifice on your body is your choice. I don't get a say; I don't want a say. It's that simple.

The internet is just one big venue for anyone to say anything to anybody—without personal consequences.

Your life is your party. You get to choose how you invite people and experiences and things into it.

He let out a harsh chuckle in the solitary darkness. When had anything ever gone as planned? But a man could dream of freedom. Even a man such as him.

I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed's control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life

This is the time of my life I have been waiting for, for as long as before I was ever even alive to be here now in this two-seat, no-roof car with bare-chested Trip in the seat at the wheel beside me, calling me "My Amnesia Girl," doing sixty, sixty-five, seventy down a bent-out-of-whack coastal cliff road, bump-pressed against the belt buckle of the Hitchhiker's leather pants I have been sitting on since the last gas tank fill-up at the freeway detour off-ramp.