Quotes About Freedom

Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom.

The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called "The Liberty Song." Both songs blustered of freedom; but both were sung to the same tune. And we, to avoid offense, played the tune without words.

I declare it well befits me to thank our God for simpler pleasures than these, than teak or gold or India cloth. Daily, in my youth, should not I have fallen upon my knees and thanked Him who died for us upon the Cross for the warmth of kindled fires, for the freedom to swing my hands in the air? Should I not have praised Him for the liberty to open doors and pass through them, for the escape from drudgery, and most, my mother's hand to hold?

He said the stadium was the only place you could express yourself openly. When a player scores, you can cheer, 'Hurray!' because you're happy, not because you're forced. You can't lie all the time!

There are few better things in life than exploring with a dog and finding new places together.

I'll breathe in whatever face I want to breathe in.

What is all this? What did we fight for? Why did we shed our blood, if I can't dance to my heart's content — and I'm supposed to be a leader of the new society!

Gone were the landscape paintings of the past, the pictures of ancient Greek heroes, the portraits of women in their silks and feathers. Painters began to reduce everything to simple squares and circles, the intersection of triangles. They were thrilled by geometry. They talked about achieving weightlessness, of painting pictures that were no longer mired in the world. They wanted to leave the earth behind.

For then they who hold others in Bondage shall know the Lash & Shackle - & shall remain enchained to this Flesh, hobbled with Bone, when the Rest are released from their Gross Bodies into the hallowed Air.

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

When the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.

We relished the small freedoms granted to us, but wanted more. We read Ginsberg's Howl, and longed for the day when we too could sing out of our windows in despair.

o amor é uma chave que deve perder-se

They do as they please, they say what they think, and nobody cares, for everyone is busy doing likewise.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

En cuanto formamos una opinión o un juicio, nos estancamos; nos esclavizamos.

La vida nos echa toda clase de tierra encima. La solución para salir del pozo está en sacudirnos y dar un paso hacia arriba. Cada uno de nuestros problemas es como un escalón hacia la libertad. Depende sólo de nosotros si lo usamos como tal

Dac? î?i în?elegi orgoliul, acesta dispare în mod natural. Dac? î?i în?elegi nefericirea, aceasta dispare la rândul ei. Dac? î?i în?elegi temerile, acestea se evapor?. Dac? î?i în?elegi ata?amentele, acestea dispar, iar ceea ce r?mâne în final este libertatea.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

I always win because I live this life by my terms and conditions