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Quotes About Freedom

I love to fly. It's just you're alone, there's peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you. No one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fuckin' world.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
The man who stands in dependence on another is no longer a man at all, he has lost his standing, he is nothing but the possession of another man.
~ Unknown
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
~ Mary Harris Jones
Perfectionism is burdensome and self-defeating. Accepting imperfection in yourself frees you (and perhaps your child) from the burden of unrealistic expectations. No parent is perfect, and your best is good enough. If you have made a mistake, in almost all cases it can be corrected.
~ Unknown
The jazz funeral celebrates the fact that the person who died is free now to dance on the other side.
~ Unknown
And also the fact that I no longer have to worry about being murdered. That was wearing on my nerves.
~ Mary Jo Putney
I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient's own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient's dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes.
~ Unknown
Come all you young fellows who live by the sea, Kiss a fair maiden and then follow me. Hoist up the sail and the anchor aweigh, And run with the wind out through Balifor Bay.
~ Unknown
I like America. I think it's pretty cool.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
~ Mary MacLane
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man's name, who bears the man's children—who plays the virtuous woman. There are too many such in the world now.
~ Mary MacLane
From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.
~ Mary MacLane
Here is the End for me, if I want it — here is the Ceasing, when I want it.
~ Mary MacLane
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.
~ Unknown
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
~ Mary McCarthy
Mind you, after a time freedom can be a lonesome thing
~ Unknown
We have the right to "Freedom of Peace".
~ Unknown
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
~ Mary Oliver
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
~ Mary Oliver
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
~ Mary Oliver
Russians suspected of liberal tendencies were watched, and upon the slightest pretext sent to Siberia,
~ Unknown
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
~ Mary Renault
We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
~ Mary Renault