Quotes About Freedom

One. My tongue was at a new level of uselessness. Two. Oh my God, I'm really doing this. Three. OK, fuck it, let's dance.

I don't want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

A knowledge of reading, writing, and the elements of arithmetic, is convenient and important to the free laborer, who is the transactor of his own affairs, and the guardian of his own interests—but of what use would they be to the slave?

An intelligent English traveller has characterized as the most miserable and degraded of all beings, "a masterless slave." And is not the condition of the laboring poor of other countries too often that of masterless slaves?

We all choose our own paths, Harry thought. We can't choose them for other people.

When you make an absolute statement, you assume a sense of personal integrity based on a pretense of moral objectivity, which exists only as a faulty heuristic to arrive at an easy conclusion, and deny yourself the responsibility of choice - it's more convenient not to acknowledge your freedom and settle for a less desirable outcome on the grounds that you had no choice, rather than risk acquiring the less desirable outcome by your own will, regardless of the possibility for a better one.

La mayoría de las sociedades imponen a sus ciudadanos un concepto de la sexualidad buena, o normal, como forma de vida obligada, negándoles así la libertad de personalizar quiénes son sexualmente.

Dónde empieza la libertad de las mujeres? Debería empezar con la exigencia de que nos liberemos del uso de la comparación de géneros como ideal de igualdad.

Drifting, drifting,/ what am I more than/ a single gull/ between sky and earth?

White gull in the vastness of the waves—ten thousand miles away, who can tame him?

A hundred things may be explained, a thousand told, But one thing only should you grasp. Know one thing and everything is freed – Remain within your inner nature, your awareness!

Mais surtout, nous éprouvions ce sentiment d'extrême liberté qui est l'apanage de ceux qui sont débarrassés de leur image et qui ont retire, du voisinage de la mort et de la cohabitation quotidienne avec la souffrance, cette distance avec ce qui rend l'homme si petit et si étriqué.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

quotation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.

In the Arab world, censorship follows speech. In America, censorship precedes speech.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.

The original American dream wasn't about wealth, but freedom—freedom to worship and freedom from tyranny. It was also about partnering with God to release the light of His word to all nations, and exporting His glorious gospel to the ends of the earth.

Your life is only yours once you're out of your parent's house.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.