Quotes About Freedom

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.

Power without guilt, love without doubt....

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

At least my cage is filled with light.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

I'm single because I was born that way.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind.

In gloomy moments, I think we are allowed to stay alive here but not to live, much less to enjoy ourselves or take pleasure in what we see when we look out of our windows or walk around our streets. If we have the fortitude to get up out of bed in the morning and get going to face the day, we should also have the freedom to rejoice, and I think the freedom to rejoice is being denied us when our senses are dulled at every turn by streets that are inimical when they are not simply sad.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind. p.175 from "Giving Money in the Street

20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.

The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

A becoming in which one never becomes, a becoming whose rule is neither evolution nor asymptote but a certain turning, a certain turning inward, turning into my own / turning on in / to my own self / at last / turning out of the / white cage, turning out of the / lady cage / turning at last.

I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

and I am missing you in the way that spreads. I'm trying to wear my freedom like an amulet, make it something I'll never forget.