Quotes About Freedom

Isn't that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain't it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don't have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- 'without money and without price.

You have the whole world at your doorstep here, said John Meredith, with a long breath. What a view—what an outlook! At times I feel stifled down there in the Glen. You can breathe up here.

don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble

I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so still and foolish directly they're written down on white paper and black ink. Fancies are like shadows... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn the secret someday if I keep trying.

He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.

Because he isn't cherished, he's allowed to aim beyond his parents' petty goals. He can leave all of them behind.

What will you do with your wild & precious self?

Over many decades technological optimists have been sustained by the belief that whatever happened to be created in the sphere of material/instrumental culture would certainly be compatible with freedom, democracy, and social justice. This amounts to a conviction that all technology—whatever its size, shape, or complexion—is inherently liberating. For reasons noted in the previous chapter, that is a very peculiar faith indeed.

Are we going to design and build circumstances that enlarge possibilities for growth in human freedom, sociability, intelligence, creativity, and self-government? Or are we headed in an altogether different direction?

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

By cutting God off (what a staggering concept of freedom—mere humans can cut God off from their lives), you cut off the only source of true significance and security.

We have the ultimate in freedom – we have absolutely no responsibilities! – and we're abusing it.

You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.

He didn't feel sad. The one thing he knew about Texas was that he was lucky to be leaving it alive—and, in fact, he had a long way to go before he could be sure of accomplishing that much.

He thought living in a place where there were eagles to watch might encourage some pretty good dreams.

Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.

Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.

Perhaps, he thought, as he turned back, that was what Augustus wanted: just to be free for a few days, just to saddle his horse and ride.

What we done wrong the first time was doing it honest. I'm through with honest. It's every man for himself in this country, and that's the way I like it. There ain't much law and mostly it can be outrun.

I ain't kin to nobody in this world. I don't want to be. I won't be.

I'd rather go outlaw than be a doctor or a lawyer.

Crowded up in a room, it was difficult for her to keep herself—on the grass, with the sky far above, it was easy.

swinging off the bay. "We rode all night

The Devil he blew an outward breath, for his heart was free from care.