Quotes About Freedom

The insistence of the Danish government to refrain from apologizing and its refusal to punish the criminals and take action to prevent this crime from being repeated... shows that the notions of freedom of speech have no roots, especially when it comes to Muslims.

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in and the West in general into an unbearable hell and a choking life.

I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing.

Doesn't that mean in effect that i have no choice but suicide?

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep—how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

Life itself is bound to be dreary if you carry a lot of baggage about.

I yearned with such desperation for "freedom" that I became weak and tearful.

I shall become nothing, the wind, the sky.

The blue sky is most beautiful when see through a prison cell window.

I wanted to write only what I wanted to write.

Just as a man has the right to live, he ought also to have the right to die.

I wonder how it would be if I let go and yielded myself to depravity.

I hope for a revolution in ethics and morals. Then, my obsequiousness and this need to plod through life according to others' expectations would simply dissolve.

A partir de entonces entendí de que la llamada sociedad era el individuo. Y con esta idea, fui capaz de comportarme más de acuerdo con mi propia voluntad.

Even if you die, don't become his plaything!

Mientras que las personas tienen el derecho de vivir con libertad, tienen también el derecho de morir en el momento que lo deseen; pero, cuando la madre está viva, hay que renunciar a este derecho porque, al ejercerlo, al mismo tiempo que quitarse la propia vida se llevarían la de la madre.

He just wanted to run—to do something for nothing.

Ah, to be one of those crows, who know nothing of wealth and poverty!

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

A free and open internet is vital for the freedom of expression.

Achieving world peace, or peace on Earth requires a strong emphasis on knowledge, openness, freedom of information and dialogue.