Quotes About Freedom

Be unattached, expect nothing in return, attachment comes only where we expect a return, love shines in freedom alone.

People have a right to their lives,' she says softly.

As Anton Chekhov so memorably put it, 'Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of me drop by drop.

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

Ni? ni resni?no, vse je dovoljeno.

Nada es verdadero, todo está permitido!

Rien n'est vrai, tout est permis. Et nous qui tenons entre nos mains tous les fils du rouage, nous, nous conserverons nos dernières pensées pour nous.

Nothing is true; everything is permitted

Nekdo lahko prebije vse življenje med štirimi stenami. ?e se ne zave ali ?e ne ob?uti, da je jetnik, tedaj ni jetnik. So pa, ki jim je je?a celotni naš planet. Ki vidijo naskon?no prostranstvo vesoljstva, milijone zvezd in tujih nebesnih teles, do katerih jim je za vekomaj zaprta pot. Ta zavest jih dela najve?je sužnje ?asa in prostora.

Öyle insanlar vard?r ki koskoca dünyam?z bile onlar için bir hapishaneden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Çünkü onlar, kainat?n sonsuz bo?lu?unu görmektedirler. Milyonlarca y?ld?z? ve evreni seyretmektedirler ama bunlar?n kendilerine ebediyen yasakland???n? bildikleri için, idrak ettikleri ?ey onlar? dü?ünebilecek en büyük köleler haline getirmektedir: Zaman?n ve mekan?n köleleri.

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.

It is true that liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

A slave that understands his position and struggles against is a revolutionary. A slave that doesn't understand that he is enslaved and vegetates in silent, unconscious and speechless life, is just a slave. A slave that salivates when complacently describing delights of slave life and that is enraptured by good and kind master is a cad, a serf.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.