Quotes About Freedom

To accept the conventions of traditional society is to be less than an individual. To reject them is yo assume an intolerable burden of freedom in often fundamentally discouraging conditions.

For Rousseau, 'the word finance is a slave's word' and freedom turns into a commodity, degrading buyer and seller alike, wherever commerce reigns. 'Financial systems make venal souls.' Their secret workings are a 'means of making pilferers and traitors, and of putting freedom and the public good upon the auction block'.

I viaggi che riescono meglio sono quelli che non si fa a tempo a preparare. Quelli che si affrontano senza una zavorra di libri. In leggerezza. Portandosi dietro nient'altro che l'esperienza dei nomadismi precedenti." – Trans Europa Express –

La Cortina di ferro lì a due passi inquietava suo padre ma non lui che nei cartelli con scritto STAATGRENZE vedeva solo l'inizio di un mondo. Semplicemente una linea che Dio aveva disegnato sulla Terra apposta perché lui l'oltrepassasse.

Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

MUSIC CUE: Ultra Naté, "Free

There is no sin worse in life than being boring—and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

she knows the truth: being free and facing the world with all its monsters is better than being safe and leaving your life unlived.

Ultra Naté, "Free

A while ago in real-time you saw the eagles. And you wished.

American democracy at its best is like that island of restored prairie. In a world where human diversity is often suppressed—where authoritarian regimes have kept people lined up like rows of cultivated corn, harvesting their labor and sometimes their lives to protect the interests of the state—the diversity that grows in a democracy delights the heart as well as the eye.

Democratic action depends upon…free spaces, where people experience a schooling in citizenship and learn a vision of the common good in the course of struggling for change. —Sara Evans and Harry Boyte, Free Spaces

if we who are privileged find ourselves confined, it is only because we have conspired in our own imprisonment.

Sex was the first dove.

No anal problems here.

We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

We now have every right except the right not to be blissful.

de acum înainte avem toate drepturile, mai puÅ£in acela de a nu fi fericiÅ£i.

Where there are no visible conflicts, there is no freedom," Montesquieu said.

Let everyone be left free not to be happy without feeling ashamed, or to be happy episodically as one sees fit. Issue no decisions, make no laws, impose nothing. If we do not want a legitimate aspiration to degenerate into a collective punishment, we must treat the pitiless idol of happiness with the most extreme disrespect.

The far Left has never gotten over communism and once again demonstrates that its true passion is not freedom, but slavery in the name of justice.