Quotes About Freedom

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.

We all have the same dream, my grandmother says. To live equal in a country that's supposed to be the land of the free. She lets out a long breath, deep remembering.

Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.

I am born as the South explodes, too many people too many years enslaved, then emancipated but not free, the people who look like me keep fighting and marching and getting killed so that today— February 12, 1963 and every day from this moment on, brown children like me can grow up free. Can grow up learning and voting and walking and riding wherever we want. I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins.

And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.

Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.

First they brought us here. Then we worked for free. Then it was 1863, and we were supposed to be free but we weren't. And that's why people are so mad.

The FBI says Angela Davis is one of America's Most Wanted.

The Hocking River moves like a flowing arm away from the Ohio River runs through towns as though it's chasing its own freedom, the same way the Ohio runs north from Virginia until it's safely away from the South.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

La libertad pertenece al orden de los relámpagos, no al de la luz eléctrica.

The stage in which the human being was a mere slave of the mechanical tyrant has been passed. When man himself becomes a machine, he attains to the marvelous freedom of unconsciousness, the freedom of the machine itself.

We see first of all that leisure, instead of being a vacuum representing a break with society, is literally stuffed with technical mechanisms of compensation and integration. It is not a vacuous interval. It is not a human kind of emptiness in which decisions might be matured. Leisure time is a mechanized time and is exploited by techniques which, although different from those of man's ordinary work, are as invasive, exacting, and leave man no more free than labor itself.

No technique is possible when men are free.

Those words make me laugh. I never talk about freedom.

poézia je nutná práve do tej miery, nako?ko je neužito?ná a slobodná, pretože ?u?om prináša zjavenie skuto?nosti mimo skuto?nos?, skúsenos? skrytých významov vecí, tajomné spolo?enstvo so svetom krásy, bez ktorého ?udia nemôžu ani ži?, ani vies? mravný život.

?lovek si musí teda sám pre seba ur?i?, ktoré najvyššie dobro je jeho š?astím. musí si zvoli? svoje š?astie, alebo teda najvyššie dobro, a osud jeho mravného života závisí na tom, ?i jeho vo?ba je alebo nie je v zhode s tým, ?o v takom prípade požaduje pravda

Dobro znam da mi jedino istina može dati radost i slobodu.

Les mots sont indépendants, comme les chats, et ils ne font pas ce que vous voulez. Vous avez beau les aimer, les flatter, leur parler doucement, il s'échappent et partent à l'aventure.

J'aimais que les gens écrivent sur les murs, sur les maisons, sur les trottoirs, dans la rue, partout. De toute façon, j'aimais les mots.