Quotes About Freedom

Just go be young.

And sure, nothing is guaranteed, but that's what makes it awesome, you know? The fact that it isn't!

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Warning, When I'm An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple!

Quiet in the cup. Hard to believe that isn't joy, the way it flies away when I fling it out the window.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

When they looked in the mirror, the American and Chinese women had begun to see each other's reflection. To reach the World Cup final, the Americans had become tightly connected by the ligaments of teamwork, while the Chinese had realized the necessary freedom of individual expression.

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

Pain will leave you, when you let go

The bona fide artist must be governed as little as possible by law-governed nature, the material encountered. This can lead to attempts to escape, or direct attention away from, all things concrete and finite, but much commoner in modernity has been a conception of the artist as one who masters and controls, bends the material to predetermined purposes.

To be new or original, after all, is proof that we are alive and have agency, that we are not enmeshed in an inexorable chain of cause and effect.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced. If a constable call upon you to serve in the militia, shoot the constable and not the enemy. If the commander of a press-gang trouble you, push him into the sea. If a bailiff, throw him out of the window. If a judge sentence you to be imprisoned or put to death, have a dagger ready, and take a stroke first at the judge.

Our race of real freedom is only beginning; hitherto there has been freedom for a party--licence for a faction, but the great mass of the people have been in bondage.

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Do they think that, if left to our own devices, we'd all park on zebra crossings for a year? If they do, it means they don't trust us. And if they don't trust us, then the relationship has broken down and it's time for some civil unrest.

Did I mention the dolphin? As a unique selling point the boys in Tahiti had caught themselves a big grey beasty which spent all day on its back, in a lagoon, being pawed by overweight American women with preposterous plastic tits and unwise G-string bikini bottoms. 'Would you like to see his penis?' asked the man in a skirt when I climbed into the water. No. What I'd like to do is spear you through the heart with a harpoon and let the miserable thing have a taste of freedom.

Flying means boredom. Next time you're going away, just drive. You can leave when you want. You don't have to sit next to a stranger. You can listen to all sorts of loud music without headphones and look at things out of the window that aren't just clouds. Driving is sensible alternative to flying.

Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace will rule the world instead of tyrants.

All the social ills that law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to learn and grow.

The definition of freedom is the infinite value of the human being. Everything that is evil teaches people that they have limited value.

I was thinking how I'd like to die and come back. I'd like to become invisible when I didn't want to do things, and then carry on living when I did. That way I could avoid punishment.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.