Quotes About Freedom

you should become detached from your daily occupations, conscientiously devoting to them the time prescribed but with perfect freedom of heart.

He is therefore free to use me to give a good thought to a soul; and if I think this inspiration belongs to me, I would be like "the donkey carrying the relics"313 who believed the reverence paid to the saints was being directed to him.

Ecco, amore mio. Quell'uomo elegante con i gomiti appoggiati al bancone del caff des Tourneurs, che ti sorride, è mio padre. Sotto la terra di Francia riposano i tuoi compagni. Ogni volta che sento qualcuno esprimere le proprie idee in un mondo libero, penso a loro. Allora mi ricordo che la parola «straniero» è una delle più belle promesse del mondo, una promessa a colori, bella come la Libertà

Tu leur apprendras que rien ne compte plus sur cette terre que cette putain de liberté capable de se soumettre au plus offrant. Tu leur diras aussi que cette grande salope aime l'amour des hommes, et que toujours elle échappera à ceux qui veulent l'emprisonner, qu'elle ira toujours donner la victoire à celui la respecte sans jamais espérer la garder dans son lit.

Je n'appartient pas à un système, j'ai toujours lutté contre ça. Je vois les gens que j'aime, je vais là où je veux aller, je lis un livre parce qu'il m'attire et non parce qu'il faut absolument l'avoir lu et toute ma vie est comme cela.

Alors je me souviens que le mot 'Étranger' est une des plus belles promesses du monde, une promesse en couleurs, belle comme la Liberté.

On peut aimer quelqu'un et être célibataire ! Il suffit que le sentiment ne soit pas réciproque, ou que la personne ne soit pas libre.

Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?

Vi gör ingenting bättre än det vi gör när vi tillåts vara fria, upprepade han. Och jag känner mig helt fri att vara tillsammans med dig.

Freedom is a huge risk, and while most people aspire to attain it, they don't know how to put it to use.

Uça?? gökyüzünde o kadar yükseldi ki, y?ld?zlara tak?l?p kald?.

Un des rares avantages du célibat est de ne pas avoir à souffrir de scènes de ménage

but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.

Mia didn't know what she wanted, but she knew what she didn't want any more. The waiting, the silence, the suspicion. She wanted to rediscover her appetite for life and to stop waking up with her stomach in knots.

What's amazing about this rule is that people don't even know consciously that it exists, yet it is the kingpin that keeps millions of people chained down. The rule is simple, and incredibly insidious: "Thou shalt not question the operating system thou art given!" What's weird is that you can rebel against the system, but you can't question it.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.

We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

those taken captive.

Cluny was created with the intention that it should be free from lay control, and was answerable only to the pope.

plucky little Britannia throwing off Roman rule and beating the barbarians into the bargain

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had slipped his oars and lay flat on his back in the bottom of the boat, letting it drift with the current, seeing nothing but the sky gliding slowly by above him, his face aglow with a foretaste of happiness and peace!