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Quotes About Freedom

Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart.
~ Yiyun Li
America and fame: they are equally useful if you want freedom from your mother.
~ Yiyun Li
Reading, however, is a kind of private freedom: out of time, out of place.
~ Yiyun Li
Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.
~ Yochai Benkler
In either case, the practical individual freedom to cooperate with others in making things of value was limited by the extent of the capital requirements of production.
~ Yochai Benkler
There is no guarantee that networked information technology will lead to the improvements in innovation, freedom, and justice that I suggest are possible. That is a choice we face as a society. The way we develop will, in significant measure, depend on choices we make in the next decade or so.
~ Yochai Benkler
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.
~ Yogi Berra
For every beautiful thing, you have to pass through a valley of hardship. There is no liberation without labor. There is no freedom which is free. To create in you the power to create the intelligence which will give you power to be effective in your own living and give you satisfaction in your own joy, you have to work for it, you have to earn it. E
~ Yogi Bhajan
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
~ Yoko Ono
Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.
~ Yoko Ono
respect of students' interests, freedom to explore, faith in students' ability to achieve something meaningful (rather than underestimation of their ability).
~ Yong Zhao
It is a premise of Enlightenment liberalism that the only legitimate purpose of government is to enable individuals to make use of the freedom that is theirs by nature.
~ Yoram Hazony
Suffice it to say that the God of Israel loves those who disobey for the sake of what is right, and is capable of being pleased when a man has used his freedom to wrestle with him and to prevail, so long as the path on behalf of which he struggles ultimately proves to be the right one in God's eyes.
~ Yoram Hazony
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
~ Yoshimi Ishikawa
They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.
~ Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself.
~ Yossi Ghinsberg
Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
~ young edward
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
~ young wm paul
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.
~ young wm paul iii
Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
~ young wm paul iii
My days restricted... my fate decided. And in that, the one and only freedom allowed to me... was to love...
~ Yuki Shimizu
Duygular kesin bir düzene girmekten kaç?n?rlar. Onun yerine küçük parçalar halinde feza boÅŸluÄŸunda serbest dolan?rlar. Ay?r?c? özellikleri de istikrars?zl?kt?r.
~ Yukio MiÅŸima
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.
~ Yukio Mishima
Oddly enough, living only for one's emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.
~ Yukio Mishima