Quotes About Freedom

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

It was largely a land without Borders - something that attracted him and disturbed him both. The land didn't need laws. But the people did.

She'd been caged for far too long.

It's an illusion to think that a choice is open to us, unless we are open to that choice.

Shit-buckets are everywhere, but if you are afraid of being chained to them, then you are already chained to them.

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

You don't even know where I'm going. I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

Regarding thou mayest: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.

Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it.

They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.

One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go." "Don't you like it here?" "Sure. It's all right, but I wish I could go." "You don't even know where I'm going." "I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.

If there is no God, no devil, no heaven, no hell then therefore there are no rules.