Quotes About Freedom

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices." "And you're with Adrian," said Dimitri. "But I was meant for you.

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices.

kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

We hadn't officially had a honeymoon after our wedding, but we'd often talked about all the potential places we'd like to go, if only we had the freedom. Italy was still high on my list, as was Greece. But honestly, I would've gladly settled for Missouri, if only Adrian could be with me, free from pursuit.

You mean it?" I asked. "Adrian and I are free? No one spying on us or looking over our shoulder?" My dad's jaw dropped. "As free as anyone is in this world," she said ruefully. "Honestly, I think it was a relief to some of them. You're an awful lot of trouble, Sydney Ivashkov.

God is not a cruel slave driver or a bully who uses brute force to coerce us into submission. He doesn't try to break our will, but woos us to himself so that we might offer ourselves freely to him. God is a lover and a liberator, and surrendering to him brings freedom, not bondage. When we completely surrender ourselves to Jesus, we discover that he is not a tyrant, but a savior; not a boss, but a brother; not a dictator, but a friend.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past.

Somos produto de nosso passado, mas não precisamos ser prisioneiros dele.

Somos producto de nuestro pasado, pero no tenemos que ser sus prisioneros.

El temor es una prisión en la que usted mismo se mete. El amor bien formado hace desaparecer el temor.

Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire.

His gaze, blunted by the unnumbered procession of iron bars, uncounted as his softly padded steps. Smooth motion of blood and sinew turning in its own, small circle prescribed by bars and walls ...and skin, confined. Suddenly, without warning, a flash of light and image pierces the caged brain, and passing through its beating heart to stillness finds its way.

und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt. Der Panther

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

I prove a theorem and the house expands: the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling, the ceiling floats away with a sigh. As the walls clear themselves of everything but transparency, the scent of carnations leaves with them. I am out in the open and above the windows have hinged into butterflies, sunlight glinting where they've intersected. They are going to some point true and unproven

BELINDA'S PETITION (Boston, February 1782) To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of this Country, new born: I am Belinda, an African, since the age of twelve a Slave. I will not take too much of your Time, but to plead and place my pitiable Life unto the Fathers of this Nation. Lately your Countrymen have severed the Binds of Tyranny. I would hope you would consider the Same for me, pure Air being the sole Advantage of which I can boast in my present Condition.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there.

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

You might say the first American Revolution was against the tyranny of King George. The second American Revolution must be against the tyranny of selfishness." This