Quotes About Freedom

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

it could not and would not happen so long as Christians "continued to believe that natural man was totally corrupt, that suffering and subordination were necessary parts of life, and that the only true freedom lay in salvation from the world.

I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.

Lili chiuse gli occhi (li sentiva così pesanti sotto lo strato di cipria!) e pensò a Copenhagen come a una città dove lei e Einar potevano vivere entrambi come una stessa persona.

God save us from religion.

What I am concerned about is when tolerance is raised to a political principle and used as a substitute for discourses of justice, equality, or even freedom. What I am suggesting is that when it is raised to the level of a political principle of that sort, it usually cloaks the kinds of powers that are at issue.

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning.

Being transformed also means being unconformed.

What was once an open space between law and freedom, one governed by character and truth, is now deserted, so law must now do what character has abandoned.

Elle sortit subitement prendre l'air. Je pense souvent à cette expression "prendre l'air". Cela veut dire que l'on va ailleurs, pour le trouver. Cela veut dire littéralement : où je suis, je m'asphyxie.

Not to let yourself go, what a strange expression. You're letting yourself go whatever happens. Life is about letting yourself go. That was all she wanted: to let herself go; or rather, to let go. To stop feeling the weight of each second.

Vivimos sometidos a la tiranía de los deseos ajenos

Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

Ils s'échappèrent comme deux voleurs de beauté.

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

Él quería ser como ellos, escapar de la dictadura del sentimiento.

La vie consiste à se laisser aller. Elle, c'était tout ce qu'elle voulait : se laisser aller. Ne plus sentir le poids de chaque seconde. Elle voulait retrouver une légèreté, fût-elle insoutenable.

Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.