Quotes About Freedom

He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He's not endangering his academic position because he doesn't have one, and he can take those risks

I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

We'll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we'll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven't seen her for some time

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

Happiness is truly priceless. It costs you nothing.

Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.

They ask of me only to weep repentance for a sin that does not concern me and I shall get in return an alien freedom I don't understand: to be drubbed in one thin, wounding water after another of their philosophy - and confidently they would hang their washing in the heavens.

Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The nigger that bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave

Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.

It is not the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's generics, not to impose man's will over dog's. It may be worth noting that many Scottish hill dogs never know the weight

Pigeon, your wings are no good.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

In retrospect, the reason for her decision seems evident. Our Noriko, for so many years troubled by the demands of society on one hand and the needs of the self on the other, finally decided. She would do what she wanted. And she did. All attempts to lure her out over the years have been rebuffed. When a documentary was made on Ozu, she refused to appear, just as, when he died, she did not attend his funeral. Setsuko Hara was her own person at last. On Japanese actress Setsuko Hara

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

Las personas deben sentirse libres de orar sobre todo lo que les venga a la mente mientras leen un pasaje de las Escrituras.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."[9]

True spiritual self-discipline holds believers in bounds but never in bonds; its effect is to enlarge, expand and liberate. D. G. KEHL

she began to choose her own projects, Marilyn

Freedom is never voluntarily granted by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed

My people keep telling me I shouldn't write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn't I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand weaknesses, we have insisted on both unlimited freedom and unlimited power. It would now seem clear that, if we want to stop the devastation of the earth, the growing threats to our food, water, air, and fellow creatures, we must find some way to limit both.