Quotes About Freedom

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey. As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?

The creative mind cannot be constrained by logical thinking.

I had no idea that throwing away worthless things could bring about such contentment and . . . well . . . joy. Maybe that's true in life too. Get rid of the worthless things that tied you down and held you back.

Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside.

Nothing is true and all is allowed

ONE ALL-TOO-COMMON RESPONSE TO BOTH UNWARRANTED SURVEILLANCE and the growing police state goes as follows: "If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.

It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me.

Where's your will to be weird?

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Where's your will to be weird?