Quotes About Freedom

Harper was looking forward to living life as she wanted—without obligations or anything that preyed on or drained her emotions. Not that anything could drain them at the moment. Nope, her emotional gas tank was already on E for Empty

Of all her childhood memories, her favorite was never having to pay bills.

Flying was just what she did, what she loved to do. In the air her problems dropped away and she felt weightless and free. A little bit like how she felt with Parker, actually.

No one likes pants. They're just one of life's fun burdens.

Relaxing, getting wild and free, those were all alien concepts for her.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

At the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves. There's no way to poison your relationship with someone else faster.

You can't go around making people's choices for them. Not if you love them.

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own.

That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you.

Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less.

That's the thing about living behind all that security: If it can keep threats out, it can just as easily keep you in.

the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves. There's no way to poison your relationship with someone else faster.

I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.

There's always a choice," I said. "That's the thing, man. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.