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Quotes About Freedom

On les avait chassés ; ils étaient redevenus sauvages avec la pureté et la simplicité des bêtes.
~ Jean Giono
L'histoire a une morale ; proférée par Amédée, elle est animale. « Voilà : la vie était devant eux. Ah, j'étais sans souci de ce côté. La vie était devant eux parce qu'ils s'aimaient et surtout parce qu'ils s'aimaient comme des gens libres. Vous
~ Jean Giono
This woman could call upon the earth and the heavens to do her bidding. But she gave up her power to be human. Write this into your record, Judge—this Ondine was the most human human being that ever lived. She was human by choice.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Un livre est un outil de liberté.
~ Jean Guéhenno
Nobody else gets to live your life.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,
~ Jean Heller
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Emotion integrates but emotivity isolates. So free yourself from affectivity. In this absence of emotivity, you may have the impression at first that you become indifferent. But very soon you'll see that there is really affection for your surroundings. Emotion, affection, is giving.
~ Jean Klein
In welcoming all that is, we live our freedom, openness, directionlessness, desirelessness.
~ Jean Klein
After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.
~ Jean M. Auel
I love being able to learn whatever I want and earn a living at it. Research is fun; writing is hard work.
~ Jean M. Auel
No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the house without their parents--those first tantalizing tastes of the independence of being an adult, those times when teens make their own decisions, good or bad.
~ Jean M. Twenge
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods!
~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which are no less consuming.
~ Jean Paulhan
his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.
~ Jean Plaidy
She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make her otherwise. She
~ Jean Plaidy
Freedom is all or nothing. With the likes of this would-be heartrending rabble, these pseudopathetic peons beating his battering rams against the gates, Dio knew that, in time, he was sure to smash them down. When freedom expands to mean freedom of instinct and social destruction, then freedom is dead.
~ Jean Raspail
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
~ Jean Rhys
Sentirse auténtico significa ser libre para desarrollar rasgos y potenciales que son predisposiciones innatas. Cuando somos aceptados y se nos permite ser auténticos, es posible tener autoestima y autenticidad a un mismo tiempo.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen