Quotes About Freedom

There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

En el fondo todos somos esclavos de algo. Nadie escapa a la esclavitud. Tanto los de aquí adentro (en la carcel) como los de fuera. Y cuando la veía algo mustia: - No irás a decirme que tú cuando te creías libre no te sentías esclava de tu trabajo, de tus miedos, de tus pasiones e incluso de tus ganas de hacer las cosas con la mayor perfección. Pero Lucía no acertaba a comprenderla.

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

to that place where no one could hear me but the sand when I walked upon it, where I could write and work, where I could read and sleep, where no one needed me except the shoreline to remark upon its incredible beauty.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

Ser menino é estar cheio de céu por cima.

Ser menino é estar ceio de céu por cima.

Agora, já o barquinho balouça. Aos poucos se vai tornando leve como mulher ao sabor da carícia e se solta do colo da terra, já livre, navegável.

Até saíra num jornal da capital que aquilo era abuso do poder. Jonas ria-se: ele não abusava; os outros é que não detinham poderes nenhuns. E repetia o ditado: cabrito come onde está amarrado.

Ainda acreditou ser um pássaro que lançava ser seu voo da varanda para o distante chão. Nesse momento ele aprendia que o céu está padecendo de cataratas, repentinas névoas que impedem Deus de nos espreitar.

Arcángel Baleiro, el cazador. Ese hombre me cazó hace tiempo. Desde entonces nunca más he tenido descanso. Huir de un amor es la manera más perfecta de obedecerlo. Cuanto más dueña de mí misma, más esclava de ese amor. No hay río en este mundo que me libre de esa trampa.

Quem viveu pregado a um só chão não sabe sonhar outros lugares.

Não é segurando nas asas que se ajuda um pássaro a voar. O pássaro voa simplesmente porque o deixam ser pássaro.

Só há um modo de escapar de um lugar: é sairmos de nós. Só há um modo de sairmos de nós: é amarmos alguém.