Quotes About Freedom

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

All those train songs, all that running... Merle never ends up anywhere any better. But he does get gone.

But being an addict means that you never stipulate to being an adult. You may, as the occasion requires, adopt the trade dress of a grown-up, showing responsibility and gravitas in spurts to get by, but the rest of the time, you do what you want when you want.

One police officer tried to pick a fight with passing gay men by repeatedly challenging them, saying, "Start something, faggot; just start something. I'd like to break your ass wide open." When one man finally turned and said, "What a Freudian comment, Officer!" the cop attacked the man and arrested him, placing him in a patrol wagon to be taken to jail.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Once more we shall raise our heads high, for is it not better to live standing tall, than to die on your knees?

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

Freedom is a wild wolf's birth right.

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

You can't make someone love you." She held out her right hand to flash a ring with a gaudy stone set in it. "But you can imprison him in a ring for not loving you. See?

Hilda! Let me out!" Sabrina heard faintly. "Thou art starting to grown on me!

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

Except for little children, who must be rightfully restrained by their parents, no one should find themselves being controlled by another person.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

The most loving women are the women who will test you the most. She wants you to be your fullest, most magnificent self. She won't settle for anything less. She knows it is true of you. She knows in your deepest heart you are free, you are Shiva. Anything less than that she will torment. And, as you know, she's quite good at it.

Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.

It is a mistake to conceive of choice and decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula. That omits the most important element of decision-making, namely the creation of new options.

Lo que consideramos nuestras acciones «libres» no son las aleatorias o indeterminadas, sino las que están ampliamente «determinadas» por quienes somos, cómo pensamos y qué está en juego. (Si bien están ampliamente determinadas, pueden ser muy impredecibles por razones de complejidad.)

It is a mistake to conceive of choice and decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula. That omits the most important element of decision-making, namely the creation of new options. Good

But one thing that all conceptions of the Enlightenment agree on is that it was a rebellion, and specifically a rebellion against authority in regard to knowledge.

one thing that all conceptions of the Enlightenment agree on is that it was a rebellion, and specifically a rebellion against authority in regard to knowledge.