Quotes About Freedom

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

He was always thinking of death, and this had so refined him that the physical seemed to fall away, freeing him from the pull of earth and enabling him to walk about some distance above its surface. Indeed he felt that even his distaste and hatred for the affairs of the world no longer stirred him deeply.

Since dark antiquity the words have been spoken by women of every caste to sailors in every port; words of docile acceptance of the horizon's authority, of reckless homage to that mysterious azure boundary; words never failing to bestow on even the haughtiest woman the sadness, the hollow hopes, and the freedom of the whore: 'You'll be leaving in the morning, won't you?...

En el momento en que un león cautivo se escapa de la jaula, posee un mundo más amplio que el que sólo ha conocido la selva". Sed de amor

Bu dunyanin uzerine boydan boya yapistirilmis bir "olaniksizlik"etiketi vardir. Ve bu etiketi yirtip atabileceklerin sadece biz oldugunu aklindan cikarma.

Kendini, göklerden de büyük bir halkan?n ortas?na hapsolmuÅŸ buldun; bunun d???ndaki her ÅŸey s?radan. Bizlerin salt otlat?lmak için d??ar?ya ç?kar?ld???m?z? kavram??s?n. GevÅŸek bir ipe baÄŸlanm??, cahil hayvanlar olduÄŸumuzu.

If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in. I was free to choose, but the freedom was not as obvious as it might seem. Many people, indeed, go so far as to refer to the orchards of their dwellings as "destiny.

Emprender un viaje produce un sentimiento misterioso. Uno cree haberse liberado no sólo de los lugares que quedan a sus espaldas, sino tambien del tiempo que deja detrás de si.

Why, why?" he thought, gritting his teeth. "Why are people not allowed to do what is most beautiful, when ugly, shoddy acts, acts for the sake of gain, are all freely allowed?

You can do whatever you want. Besides the works of the Hikaris…seem to be destined to end up with the Niwas.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.

Humans vote with their feet.

Starving children have no liberties.

Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the world have gradually come to see both equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off.

To run fast, don't take much baggage with you. Leave all your illusions behind. They are very heavy.

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.

Even worse, greedy bosses might curtail the workers' freedom of movement through debt peonage or slavery. At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Unrestrained market forces, rather than tyrannical kings or racist ideologues, were responsible for this calamity.

We cannot search for the truth and for the way out of suffering without the freedom to think, investigate, and experiment

Humans should always retain the freedom to doubt, to check again, to hear a second opinion, to try a different path.

There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.