Quotes About Freedom

It's possibly, in the manner of Facino Cane, one more allegory of the novelist: the abuse of the power to enter others' lives, to animate them and tell their stories, leads to disaster. Humans have to be accorded a greater freedom, perhaps, even when that freedom means nonconformity to human definitions of reason and relationship.

Henry James in "The Lesson of Balzac" praised his precursor for giving his characters "the long rope," for acting themselves out. That grant of freedom to his created life was for James crucial to Balzac's success in representation of persons in the world. James saw Balzac's creation of character as ultimately motivated by love: "The love, as we call it, the joy in their communicated and exhibited

Não apenas se reduziu a quantidade de países e de pessoas praticando a democracia, como ocorreram muitos casos em que, pelo próprio voto, pela própria liberdade de expressão e organização, se escolhe o cativeiro.

The headline in the Washington Post read, "You'll Never Have to Go to Work Again." The article described how innovations in IT make it possible to choose whatever location you want to do your work from. The year was 1969.

Man is born free and is everywhere in chains

America was founded by rugged individuals who created government to secure their rights and leave them alone. Americans today want government to violate other people's rights, steal their stuff, and give it to them. The home of the free has become the land of the freeloader.

Life is a zoo in a jungle

Make no mistake about this: destroy the liberty of the least among us and you destroy the principle that guarantees liberty to all.

If God were a helicopter parent, our sacred book would be full of clear, consistent, unambiguous information to take in. In other words, it wouldn't look anything like it does. But if the Bible's main purpose is to form us, to grow us to maturity, to teach us the sacred responsibility of communing with the Spirit by walking the path of wisdom, it would leave plenty of room for pondering, debating, thinking, and the freedom to fail. And that is what it does.

But if the Bible's main purpose is to form us, to grow us to maturity, to teach us the sacred responsibility of communing with the Spirit by walking the path of wisdom, it would leave plenty of room for pondering, debating, thinking, and the freedom to fail. And that is what it does.

The book doesn't limit God.

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.

There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression

Astronauts got laid a lot .

Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?

Their chanting and singing had been persistent and inventive. He'd never known there were so many songs about freedom, and what had happened to Slvasta's balls.

Human civilization is always regulated, Del. It's how it maintains itself, the eternal balance between freedom and authority. We all live in the middle, obeying the rules for the common good.

Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you're in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.

Slvasta's revolution destroyed his dictatorship

Universal law: data wants to be free.

Ideologues are welcome to live with the values they admire, I have no problem with that, but you have to give the next generation the freedom and ability to go their own way. Anything else is fascism.

It docked at one of their national low orbit stations, the Spirit of Freedom

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

They now advised me to stay at home, take a job and behave myself. Which meant to me, stay at home and be dull and never do a thing you have not seen thousands of others do in the exact same way.