Quotes About Freedom

The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; for there is a law of contraries; the excess of freedom passes into the excess of slavery, and the greater the freedom the greater the slavery.

Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.

porque si teme, es esclavo.

Hay en un Estado señal más segura de una mala y viciosa educación que la necesidad de médicos y de jueces hábiles no sólo para los artesanos y pueblo bajo, sino también para los que se precian de haber sido educados como hombres libres? ¿No es cosa vergonzosa y una prueba insigne de ignorancia el verse forzado a acudir a una justicia extraña por no ser uno mismo justo, y el convertir a los demás en dueños y jueces de su derecho?

My first observation is, that your lawgiver ordered you to endure hardships, because he thought that those who had not this discipline would run away from those who had. But he ought to have considered further, that those who had never learned to resist pleasure would be equally at the mercy of those who had, and these are often among the worst of mankind. Pleasure, like fear, would overcome them and take away their courage and freedom.

Costoro sanno che la filosofia, accorgendosi del potere di questa prigione, terribile perché opera attraverso i desideri (e per questo chi è prigioniero è complice della sua stessa prigionia), quelli che amano il sapere sanno che la filosofia, prendendo la loro anima in queste condizioni, dolcemente la esorta e cerca di liberarla.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly; for while bodily labours performed under constraint do not harm the body, nothing that is learned under compulsion stays in the mind.

So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn't sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?

I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.

They may hate us for sucking cock, but at least they can't accuse of making more little cocksuckers.

Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

You must let your desires guide you, instead of allowing yourself to be boxed in by perceived constraints.

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still posses one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last - the power to refuse our consent.

In every part of the world, wherever you begin by denying the fundamental liberties of mankind, and equality among people, you move toward the concentration camp system, and it is a road on which it is difficult to halt.

Era questa, la carne dell'orso:ed ora che sono passati molti anni, rimpiango di averne mangiata poca, poiché, di tutto quanto la vita mi ha dato di buono, nulla ha avuto, neppure alla lontana, il sapore di quella carne, che è il sapore di essere forti e liberi, liberi anche di sbagliare, e padroni del proprio destino.

Dissention, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you are not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, but you are not.

For a few hours we can be unhappy in the manner of free men.

Quien quema libros termina tarde o temprano por quemar hombres - Heinrich Heine

La libertà, l'improbabile, impossibile libertà, così lontana da Auschwitz che solo nei sogni osavamo sperarla, era giunta[...]. Era intorno a noi, ma sotto forma di una spietata pianura deserta. Ci aspettavano altre prove, altre fatiche, altre fami, altri geli, altre paure.

Venne a un tratto lo scioglimento. La portiera fu aperta con fragore, il buio eccheggio' di ordini stranieri, e di quei barbarici latrati dei tedeschi quando comandano che sembrano dar vento a una rabbia vecchia di secoli.

Living in freedom means learning how to walk again—learning how to walk God's way for a change—because, listen, you can be 100 percent saved and still spend the majority of your time in Egypt. Unbelievers aren't the only ones who contribute to Egypt's overcrowding.

But a free woman possesses the God-given ability to know when He is truly asking her to do something—as well as the God-given ability to know when He's not. Then she has the God-given discernment to know her limits and the authority to know when she needs "to cease, to stop, to pause"—accepting the gentle yoke of Jesus instead of the tyrannical yoke of slavery. "For My yoke is easy," He said, "and My burden is light" (Matt. 11:30).

Restricting yourself in the truth of God's word actually releases you into a freedom you would not otherwise have.

It was for freedom that Christ set us free" (Gal. 5:1).