Quotes About Freedom

what recently nurtured the tyranny was nothing other than our inaction … Weakened by the pleasure of peace we learned to live like slaves

defend women's right to be wrong, at least occasionally.

Just as the ambition of Roman slaves was usually to gain freedom for themselves, not to abolish slavery as an institution, so the ambitions of the poor were not radically to reconfigure the social order but to find a place for themselves nearer the top of the hierarchy of wealth.

The cash that comes from selling your labour is vulgar and unacceptable for a gentleman … for wages are effectively the bonds of slavery.

Is it legitimate to eliminate 'terrorists' outside the due processes of law? How far should civil rights be sacrificed in the interests of homeland security? The Romans never ceased

You can't catch a creature like that anymore than you can catch a person. You can only create an environment they might want to live in. The rest is up to them.

That was the problem with walls, Carlene thought as she looked out the window. They kept people out, but they also trapped people in.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

It's been hard. Easier was the wrong word. There's nothing easy about freedom. You have to strive. You have to make a plan and stick to it.

I leave before being left. I decide.

In love, the feeling of owning your partner seems natural, but it is not. Every man is free, even in love.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ¦ If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Love is not something that you can put chains on and throw into a lake. That's called Houdini. Love is liking someone a lot.