Quotes About Freedom

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn't come back

When you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter," I told her, and she said, "Then I would never utter another word again." "You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do." "Then I would never do anything again.

I'd left behind a thousand tons of marble, I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough?

The absurdity of it, the agony and beauty of it, almost brought Jacob to his knees: these two independent consciousnesses, neither of which existed ten and a half years ago, and existed only because of him, could now not only operate free of him (that much he'd known for a long time), but demand freedom.

I'd write Ha ha ha! and instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs (..)

desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out, was a profusion of geography, of atmosphere, of full empty air.

Kein briere iz oich a breire. Not to have a choice is also a choice. How will we tell the story of he who never had no choice? At stake is our notion of righteousness, of a life worth saving.

Species don't make choices, individuals do. And even if species somehow could, to imply that they would select perpetuity over individual well-being is hard to apply more broadly. By this logic, enslaving a group of humans is acceptable if the posed alternative were nonexistence. (Instead of Live free or die, the motto we script for our food animals is Die enslaved but live.)

I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on Thanksgiving to acknowledge that fact. In many ways, Thanksgiving initiates a distinctly American ideal of ethical consumerism. The Thanksgiving meal is America's founding act of conscientious consumption.

The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.

the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by laying restraints on human nature, is supposed the great enemy to the freedom of thought and action. Upon

The trouble with free speech is that it insists on living up to its name.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free

There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.

La libertad consiste en ser capaz de elegir entre lo que es posible para mí y hacerme responsable de mi elección.

La búsqueda en cuestión... es un camino sin metas pero con grandes satisfacciones; es un recorrido sin mapas pero con un rumbo; es un sendero único y personal pero abierto a todos; es una ruta sin final pero que puede dejarse en cualquier momento; es un viaje que algunas veces no es el resultado de una elección y que, a pesar de eso, está siempre lleno de decisiones.

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia no existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

Cuando poseemos algo y nos esclavizamos dependiendo de ese algo, ¿quién tiene a quién, Demián? ¿Quién tiene a quién?

Las personas creen que aman pero en realidad están enganchadas en su necesidad de poseer a otro. Como si dijeran: "Te amo mientras estés al lado mío, pero si te vas seguramente te odiaré".

La manifestación de aquello que es único en cada ser, en todos los casos y todas las personas, nunca podrá salir a luz con plenitud si antes no atraviesa una etapa de enfrentamiento con el pensamiento ajeno, con la opinión de la mayoría y con la parte del mundo que quiere dejar siempre todo «como está». No hay libertad sin pasar por el proceso de desapego de todo lo que los demás esperan de uno.