Quotes About Freedom

Oh, yes. Nonstop. She wants to run away to Paris and study art. She wants to run away to LA and live with March, her older sister. She wants to run away to Santa Fe and become a painter. She wants to run away, period.

Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.

The quickest way to freedom, or at least to a reduced sentence, was to hear or claim to hear a prized suspect confess in whole or in part to his crime, and then trade this off in an attractive plea bargain with the prosecutor.

liberty" and "freedom" here meant merely the dislodgement of the Guises by the English:

the keeper of the royal aviaries released some seven hundred goldfinches and other songbirds

Or should they stay single and keep their independence?

After almost eleven months of captivity, Mary was free again.

and perfectly capable of bearing children if only she chose to marry.

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.

So, in what we considered the true spirit of freedom and the timeless nature of our travel plans, a few months after the sacrifice of Dave's airline ticket, the three of us ceremoniously burnt our watches, too.

We are not forced to accept the things that grieve us

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

We are the sole creators of the system which entraps us.

Social self-determination does not and cannot exist in a capitalist society: capital, in all its forms, is the negation of self-determination.

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.

The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of force against anyone else within its borders.

We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying. When you're no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don't have to finish books you don't like.

There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands.

ARE THEY ESPECIALLY WILD?

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.