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Quotes About Freedom

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free.
~ W.B. Yeats
Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit.
~ W.B. Yeats
I would like to have great iron claws, and to put them about the pillars, and to pull and pull till everything fell into pieces. Jerome. I don't see what good that would do you. Paul Ruttledge. Oh, yes it would. When everything was pulled down we would have more room to get drunk in, to drink contentedly out of the cup of life, out of the drunken cup of life.
~ W.B. Yeats
Go your ways, O go your ways I choose another mark, Girls down on the seashore Who understand the dark
~ W.B. Yeats
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
~ W.H. Auden
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
~ W.H. Auden
To be free is often to be lonely.
~ W.H. Auden
In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise
~ W.H. Auden
Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty.
~ W.H. Auden
Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!
~ W.H. Auden
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
~ W.H. Auden
We live here. We lie in the Present's unopened Sorrow; its limits are what we are. The prisoner ought never to pardon his cell.
~ W.H. Auden
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
~ W.H. Auden
I was just about half-way through my sixth year, when one morning at breakfast we children were informed to our utter dismay that we could no longer be permitted to run absolutely wild
~ Unknown
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
~ Unknown
If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.
~ Milton Friedman
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
~ Bootsy Collins
On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
~ Larry Correia
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
~ Dave Eggers