Quotes About Freedom

Home education may not be the choice for EVERYONE, but home education IS a choice for ANYONE.

Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a bride, I'm not so gauche as that, but as a mistress or paramour or concubine or companion or friend or pal or anything else. I just don't want to be left alone! I want to get out of here! She said it again for all the wide-faced flowers to hear: I want to get out of here!

Fluir en la vida acontece cuando se alcanza la libertad y ésta no es otra cosa más que el logro de la trascendencia con respecto a toda estructura limitante.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area. What should we do? Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace?

The ideology of our own society is the most boorish and vulgar of all—we wish to enjoy total individual sexual freedom, so those who impede that (the unborn) are eliminated. Thus it is that every human ideology that strives sincerely for a better life ends up destroying life. Those ideologues who dream of a better humanity inevitably end up killing humans.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

let's live suddenly without thinking under honest trees

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.