Quotes About Freedom

7. It is the nature of the mind to accept certain things and to reject others; this is bondage, nothing else.

Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all.

the advantages of bachelorhood: being able to get into bed from either side.

Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.

And if you don't like it here, you can go somewhere else, where it's better, no road is closed to you.

Do you know what the imagination is, Susan?" The child nodded sagely. "That's when you see things that aren't really there." "Well, not exactly," said Kris with a smile. "No -- to me the imagination is a place all by itself. A very wonderful country. You've heard of the British Nation and the French Nation?" Susan nodded again. "Well, this is the Imagination. And once you get there you can do almost anything you want.

O yüzden çözüm kad?nlar? özgürleÅŸtirecek olan para-iÅŸ sisteminin tamamen ortadan kald?r?lmas?d?r; erkeklerle iktisadi eÅŸitlik saÄŸlanmas? deÄŸil.

I had come to the place where I now live. It is a place of freedom, the freedom to accept the evidence of my senses and my mind. It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know: to have hard, complicated realities staring at you and to be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering.

or even thrown in jail for sneaking onto a freight train! As you read, you decide what happens next by choosing your own path through this multiple-ending story.

La paz significa en la mayoría de los casos una vida serena, la disponibilidad de lo necesario, la dignidad de no tener que implorar piedad. La paz puede significar también libertad, si es administrada sabiamente.

Cuando un pájaro ha permanecido en la jaula toda su vida, aunque se le abra la puerta no se va. El mundo exterior le da miedo.

Se non fai una cosa è perché non vuoi farla, non perché qualcosa o qualcuno te lo impedisce!

La libertad es un concepto abstracto: ¿la libertad de quién? ¿Es libre un pobre que no tiene lo suficiente para sustentarse a sí mismo y sacar adelante a su familia?

Better sixty years of tyranny than a single day of civil strife.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, On a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky, And I will never grow so old again, And I will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain. - Sweet Thing

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.

Seeding the future when possible extinction stares us in the face; seeding freedom when the freedoms of all beings are being closed for the limitless freedom of the 1% to exploit the earth and people, to manipulate life and our minds: this calls for a quantum leap in our imaginations, our intelligences, our capacity for compassion and love, as well as our courage for creative nonviolent resistance and non-cooperation with a system that is driving us to extinction.

Owning our seeds through seed freedom, our own food through food freedom, our own minds and intelligence through intellectual freedom, our own economies through freedom to produce and consume ecologically and locally, is the 'barbarianism' that the 1% would like to extinguish.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.