Quotes About Freedom

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

Genuine biblical Christianity does not impose itself on unwilling people at the point of a sword. If you choose to reject Jesus, you're perfectly free to do so.

I would never have to work again. I could travel where I wanted, work if and when I wanted, and be completely free. If I survived.

The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." —Frederick Douglass

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

Now I want you to consider: any legal adult here can do anything he wishes with the only restriction being that no one else gets hurt.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

The basis of the system is maximum individual freedom and mutual trust between governors and governed. The UN is an authoritarian system, assuming ill intentions of all and holding the threat of punitive action as a means of control.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

Travel was wonderful, travel was glorious. See the USA in your Chevrolet! But

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

o espaço nunca é tão urbanizado que não se acabe por descobrir um local imprevisto onde o tempo se liberta dos constrangimentos normais

Y todas las teorías de la libertad, desde Gide a Sartre, no son sino inmoralidades concebidas por solteros irresponsables.

Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un mensonge, et l'un des plus grossiers qui puisse se concevoir; il n'y a d'amour que dans le désir d'anéantissement, de fusion, de disparition individuelle, dans une sorte comme on disait autrefois de sentiment océanique, dans quelque chose qui de toute façon était, au moins dans un futur proche, condamné.