Quotes About Freedom

You fill it [an aviary] up, with as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.

Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz.

Podía suceder cualquier cosa en aquel instante. La verdad es que hay momentos en los que la omnipresente y lógica red de las secuencias causales se rinde, cogida por sorpresa por la vida, y baja al patio de butacas, mezclándose con el público, para dejar que en el escenario, bajo las luces de una libertad vertiginosa y repentina, una mano invisible pesque en el infinito regazo de lo posible y, entre millones de cosas, sólo permita que ocurra una.

Así vio, por último, de improviso, el cielo sobre el palacio mancharse con el vuelo de cientos de pájaros, como expulsados fuera de la tierra, pájaros de todo tipo, estupefactos, huir por todas partes, enloquecidos, cantando y gritando, pirotécnica explosión de alas y nube de colores disparada en la luz, y de sonidos, asustados, música en fuga, volando en el cielo.

Cosí vide, alla fine, all'improvviso, il cielo sopra il palazzo macchiarsi del volo di centinaia d'uccelli, come esplosi via dalla terra, uccelli d'ogni tipo, stupefatti, fuggire ovunque, impazziti, cantando e gridando, pirotecnica esplosione di ali, e nube di colori sparata nella luce, e di suoni, impauriti, musica in fuga, nel cielo a volare. Hervé Joncour sorrise. Seta

Even in a golden cage, the nightingale yearns for its native land," says an old proverb.

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

You can't be nobody's frien' an' slave both. How come, Pappy? 'Cause friend's don't own one 'nother.

He thought that it was impossible for a massa to perceive that being owned by anyone could never be enjoyable.

People trade for many reasons—some rational and many irrational. Trading offers an opportunity to make a lot of money in a hurry. Money symbolizes freedom to many people, even though they often don't know what to do with it.

The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

As his mother drove him away on the day he was let out, Stuart broke the cardinal prison rule: like Lot's wife, he looked back, at the building he'd just left.

Do I shock you? I think I do. That's the problem these days – nobody speaks their mind. No, don't smile. They really don't. We've been browbeaten into conformity by all sorts of people who tell us what we can and cannot say. Haven't you noticed it? The tyranny of political correctness. Don't pass any judgement on anything. Don't open your trap in case you offend somebody or other.

She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free.

nobody dared in those days to question such bullies, and the freedom that is more normal these days has come too late for these victims. Auden would have helped, because the whole message of his life and his poetry is the antithesis of cruelty and meanness of spirit.

Sometimes it was important simply to get out. It did not matter where you went, as long as you got out of the office, or the kitchen, or any other place where duty required you to be, and went to some place that you did not have to be.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps