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Quotes About Freedom

They used to tie us to a tree, but that is forbidden now. In many ways we are treated quite like men. An
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Safe in his cage,' she repeated. 'Who wants to be safe in a cage?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Only whatever you do, don't lose your freedom. It is more precious than love and you only find our afterwards.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Žinojimas išlaisvina žmog?, bet padaro j? nelaiming?.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
C'est aujourd'hui dans les marges, j'en suis persuadé, que se dissimulent les derniers hommes libres.
~ Erik L'Homme
In the end, Dodd proved to be exactly what Roosevelt had wanted, a lone beacon of American freedom and hope in a land of gathering darkness.
~ Erik Larson
Mankind is in grave danger, but democratic governments seem not to know what to do. If they do nothing, Western civilization, religious, personal and economic freedom are in grave danger
~ Erik Larson
I felt like a child, ebullient and careless, the intoxication of the new regime working like wine in me.
~ Erik Larson
we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his right to worship his God, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As
~ Erik Larson
gin daisy, which
~ Erik Larson
Speed Bonnie Boat.
~ Erik Larson
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science.
~ Erik Larson
It was night time, Inspector Thompson wrote. Those in the plane were transfixed with delight to look down from the windows and see the amazing spectacle of a whole city lighted up. Washington represented something immensely precious. Freedom, hope, strength. We had not seen an illuminated city for two years. My heart filled.
~ Erik Larson
He marched toward his climax: "If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science.
~ Erik Larson
four essential human freedoms": speech, worship, and freedom from want and fear.
~ Erik Larson
Let our hopes and aspirations awaken forces which in all time to come shall influence the welfare, the dignity, and the freedom of mankind. - Grover Cleveland
~ Erik Larson
They say America is the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave but what's so free about a land where people get killed?
~ Erin Gruwell
I couldn't please everyone, there was no way to do that. But I could please myself. That was my conclusion, and I knew what pleased me. Having the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn, to grow, to become a better person. Being here, in this house, with this guy, pleased me. My friendships pleased me. My hoodie made me happy. It was all the simplest things that mattered, and the future didn't have to be decided tonight.
~ Erin McCarthy
I'm going to tell you something about myself. I pay my own way as I go through the world, and I want the privilege of living my own life. I left North Mesa because I couldn't do just that. I have my own code, my own creed, and my own ideas. I try to be true to them, all of them. I hate hypocrisy. I like fair play. I want to live my own life in my own way, and I'm willing to let other people live their lives in their way.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
Why does man accept to live a trivial life? Because of the danger of a full horizon of experience, of course. This is the deeper motivation of philistinism, that it celebrates the triumph over possibility, over freedom. Philistinism knows its real enemy: freedom is dangerous. If you follow it too willingly it threatens to pull you into the air; if you give it up too wholly, you become a prisoner of necessity. The safest thing is to toe the mark of what is socially possible.
~ Ernest Becker
This is how we understand depressive psychosis today: as a bogging down in the demands of others—family, job, the narrow horizon of daily duties. In such a bogging down the individual does not feel or see that he has alternatives, cannot imagine any choices or alternate ways of life, cannot release himself from the network of obligations even though these obligations no longer give him a sense of self-esteem, of primary value, of being a heroic contributor to world life even
~ Ernest Becker
everybody has to think and see for himself, or the nations are doomed.
~ Ernest Becker
Once the person begins to look to his relationship to the Ultimate Power, to infinitude, and to refashion his links from those around him to that Ultimate Power, he opens up to himself the horizon of unlimited possibility, of real freedom.
~ Ernest Becker
every human being is… equally unfree, that is, we… create out of freedom, a prison….
~ Ernest Becker