Quotes About Freedom

The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.

Permission to jump in an X-wing and blow something up?" "Granted.

Nismo nemo?ni jer nam govore što da radimo i jer to ?inimo. Bespomo?ni smo jer volimo sigurnost ropstva.

The story of who you are, were, will be: you don't have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you'll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.

The upshot to dying is that you don't have to go to work the next day.

Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Marion Crane. The girl who just wanted a better life.

And this load we carry—the anger, the fatigue, the resentment, and the deathly sense of compromise that is bound to our backs or held tightly in our clenched fists—it will still exist, but we won't have to carry it, because it belongs to the past or the future, and that's not where we'll be. We will experience more, and it will weigh less.

He's not burying you, Mallory. He's freeing you. Excavating you from a mountain of heroin and bringing you back to society. And look at you now!

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

Freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth.

Holding on to offenses emotionally incarcerates us, but forgiveness is a key that liberates.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

it's ridiculous, isn't it, that after all these centuries of practice, after so many incredible advances and inventions, we still have no way of knowing when someone is lying; naturally, this both benefits and prejudices all of us equally, and may be our one remaining redoubt of freedom.

In fact, nothing can be imposed on a writer of fiction, who doesn't need to ask permission to introduce any real person or sequence of events he happens to know about into his fiction; if he decides to, then nothing and no one can prevent him. We aren't trustworthy people and some of us are heartless, though I don't think I am.

Can't a person lie on the floor simply because he wants to and because it suits him?

Sim, é ridículo que depois de tantos séculos de prática, e de incríveis avanços e inventos, não haja ainda uma maneira de saber quando alguém mente; é claro que isso nos beneficia e prejudica a todos por igual, talvez seja o único reduto de liberdade que nos resta.

És das poucas coisas a que não fui obrigado, que pude escolher com liberdade. Noutros aspectos tenho a sensação de que a minha sorte já está decidida, de que não escolhi tanto como escolheram por mim. Tu és a única que é minha a sério, a única que sei que fui eu quem quis.

De nuestros pensamientos no hay testigos, no tenemos por qué ser respetuosos ni corteses en ellos.

hotel de una ciudad nunca vista, elegida sólo al azar del anochecer: fingir que uno está soltero y sin responsabilidades, y sin nadie a quien regresar.

We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.

For many people, realizing that they don't have to agree brings a sense of great liberation, relief, and empowerment.