Quotes About Freedom

know you think I'm taking the piss but I am the piss and I've not been taken anywhere. I go where I want. I am the freedom piss in the toilet of oblivion flushing myself away into the sewer pipe of broken dreams.

There is nothing more awesome than being yourself.

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher a clocher; des guirlandes de fenetre a fenetre; des chaines d'or d'etoile a etoile, et je danse.

Madame X set up a piano in the Alps.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

pellucid sensation. I felt completely free. Nothing

A great burden had been lifted from me.

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

If you cannot be free, be a mystery.

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an elk's horns, or sing Tosca or screw James Dean in a field of wheat. To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong: I'll never be through with my life.

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.

But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound by the rules of my culture. And when I am a foreigner in another country, I am exempt from the local rules. This extraordinary situation means that there are no rules in my life. I am free to live by the standards and ideals and rules I create for myself.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

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.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe it your allegiance." I nodded, listening only to his words and not to the rattling of the windows, which had begun as soon as we stepped inside.

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.

We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself.

You don't know something bothers you until you no longer have to do it. Suddenly you're both angry and glad. Angry you did it for all those years and glad you'll never do it again.

A wise man is free from passions, though Kant admits that, as the passions are so all-pervasive, we may have to search for this wise man in the moon.