Quotes About Freedom

Consiste en resistir a la tiranía de lo ordinario, en impedir que la negatividad se apropie de vuestra capacidad de asombro y en evitar que cualquier forma de esclavitud de la mediocridad infeste vuestras vidas.

My point is this: never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.

That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.

I think you grow up different, by the water. You grow up knowing there's a way out.

People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.

And we began to sing and play, To lightly dance in rings and faster turn. No man within that hall could keep his seat But needs must dance and leap Against his will. This was the way we danced them to the door And sent them on their way into the world Where they will leap amain Till they think one kind thought. from The Dancing of the Lord of Weir

You're better off without me. And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

Jesus, she said. -Are you in there at all? -I am, Annie, I told her. -Bursting to get out.

I was going. I couldn't stay here. Every breath of its stale air, every square inch of the place mocked me, grabbed at my ankles. It needed blood to survive and it wasn't going to get mine.

The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the product of human freedom and the pursuit of knowledge, which is precisely why it happened where and when it did.

the Reformations resulted in state churches that were even more repressive of individuals than the Catholic Church ever attempted to be. The Reformations did not contribute anything to religious freedom and tolerance; to the contrary. Finally, Martin Luther's vicious anti-Semitism played a significant role in legitimating the Holocaust, just as William Shirer claimed.

To sum up: the Reformations resulted in state churches that were even more repressive of individuals than the Catholic Church ever attempted to be. The Reformations did not contribute anything to religious freedom

Once the Lutheran churches were secure, Luther, like most other leaders of the Reformations, believed in freedom of conscience only for those who agreed with him.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

It is commonplace to say that silent films are more "dreamlike," but what does that mean? In Nosferatu, it means that the characters are confronted with alarming images and denied the freedom to talk them away. There is no repartee in nightmares. Human speech dissipates the shadows and makes a room seem normal. Those things that live only at night do not need to talk, for their victims are asleep, waiting.

he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom

His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.

Orgasmic realizations will always be frowned upon by those who feel they have to keep up appearances.

We are not born free, nor do we come into this world with a self-identity and autonomy of our own. We achieve those things, through the conflict and cooperation that weave us into the social fabric. We become freely choosing individuals only by acquiring obligations to parents, siblings, institutions and groups: obligations that we did not choose.

Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them.