Quotes About Freedom

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

Die Idee der "freien Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit" scheint ausgezeichnet, solange man nicht auf Individuen stößt, deren Persönlichkeit sich frei entfaltet hat.

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence "Freedom," but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

Die Fanatiker der Freiheit enden als Theoretiker der Polizei. Die Doktrin Fichtes zum Beispiel gipfelt in einer Theorie des Reisepasses.

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal.

Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule. The tyrant frees each individual from the tyranny of his neighbor.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Recordemos que el planeta estaba sumido en plena Guerra Fría y la batalla entre el mundo libre y el totalitarismo marxista abarcaba obviamente el continente americano, en donde el país trasandino por su posicionamiento geopolítico era una de las prioridades de la Unión Soviética.

Un voyage se passe de motifs. Il ne tarde pas à prouver qu'il se suffit à lui-même. On croit qu'on va faire un voyage, mais bientôt c'est le voyage qui vous fait, ou vous défait.

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Quelle liberté nous reste-t'il si nos propres choix sont conditionnés par des émotions sur lesquelles nous n'avons aucune emprise ?

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

I want to issue a call to everyone in the world who believes in the values of tolerance, freedom, democracy, humanism, to all those who are persecuted by tyranny, by dictatorships.

cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

women laugh in such ways that we can't see the fences in their breathing

If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away. Here in his world she was trapped in an intolerable corner, which seemed to grow tighter and tighter each year. And now no place in America felt right.

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.

I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom.

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.