Quotes About Freedom

half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.

Il primo libro sarebbe meglio non averlo mai scritto. Finché il primo libro non è scritto, si possiede quella libertà di cominciare che si può usare una sola volta nella vita, il primo libro già ti definisce mentre tu in realtà sei ancora lontano dall'esser definito; e questa definizione dovrai portartela dietro per la vita, cercando di darne conferma o approfondimento o correzione o smentita, ma mai più riuscendo a prescinderne.

Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò-Lived in trees-Always loved earth--Went into sky.

Penso che la sigaretta abbia un gusto più intenso quand'è l'ultima. Anche le altre hanno un loro gusto speciale, ma meno intenso. L'ultima acquista il suo sapore dal sentimento della vittoria su sè stesso e la speranza di un prossimo futuro di forza e di salute. Le altre hanno la loro importanza perchè accendendole si protesta la propria libertà e il futuro di forza e di salute permane, ma va un po' più lontano.

Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.

Come di tutte le cose, anche del viaggio la parte più bella era l'inizio. Partendo si correva via immediatamente liberi dal groviglio di affari e affarucci che gremivano la vita. Per un istante si respirava liberi.

Birine ruh yap?s?n?n ne biçim olduÄŸunu aç?klamak, dilediÄŸi gibi davranmas?na izin vermenin bir yoludur.

È libertà completa quella di poter fare ciò che si vuole a patto di fare anche qualche cosa che piaccia meno. La vera schiavitù è la condanna all'astensione: Tantalo e non Ercole.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

Only free men can change their minds and be surprised; and while no men are completely free, some are freer than others.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.

Toliko je u životu bilo stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

I mention this only because it seems to be a real obstacle for contemporary people. We don't want the freedom of the creature but the freedom of the Creator—not freedom to be good but freedom to determine the good. Maybe this is not so new after all, for it was the first temptation: to be "like God, knowing good and evil".

Did you read where the great-grandson of Nathan Hale got married this weekend? Give me liberty or give me death. That's what the groom will be saying in about one month.

Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived intersubjectively distinguishes itself from the arbitrary freedom of the isolated individual. No one is free until we are all free.

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.

Christian theology] awakens pain over the present internal and external enslavements of human beings

In de taal zit een vrijheid verborgen waar de censor niet bij kan. Al onze schrijvers kennen dat geheim.

To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.