Quotes About Freedom

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices.

Do que acontecido, me senti muito livre. Trotei, adiante. Eu ia, à meia-rédea, não me instava, não pensava.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

Nuvens deslizam, depetaladas, e altas, altas, garças brancas planam.

Pelo menos as cabeças deviam ser abertas, deviam ser libertas, para que vissem a verdade delas e não a verdade de quem as dominava.

We've been looking for a conscience of what we are. . . . We don't have enough weapons to overcome oppression and never will, although it's our duty to fight whenever our survival and our honor have to be defended. But our weapon must be the mind, each and every one's mind, which must not be dominated and have to assert itself. Our objective is not really equality, rather, it's justice, freedom, pride, dignity, good coexistence.

If you think well, you'll see that nothing is by chance, but common sense, which is a way to bind conscience and shackle freedom, denies that and prefers to go on believing in old, worn-out truths.

I must live a little each day, greet the sun as it rises and revel in its setting, swim naked, sip coffee and wine by the shore, generate new ideas, admire myself, talk to animals, meditate, laugh, risk adventures. I must try to be soft, not hard; fluid, not rigid; tender, not cold; find rather than seek. I have been embraced by the sea, tested by its elements, emptied of anxiety, cleansed with fresh thought. In the process, I have recovered myself.

I couldn't imagine life unless I could continue to have powerful experiences in the wild, and I never wanted to be in a place where I wanted to do something but my body couldn't....

Whereas classical liberals seek maximum freedom from government, neoliberal individuals are perpetually responsive to the state's engineering of their environment. In the former, government is idealized to the extent that it stays out of people's lives, thereby maximizing individual choice; in the latter, the state creates the conditions that enable people to choose to behave in ways it has determined are best for the collective good

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?" "No." "We learned to get mad.

May all beings be free, May all beings knew the love and beauty of their own true nature, May all beings find happiness in service to all.

It takes no more time to be mindful than mindless, and mindfulness is the way that you will taste freedom. Commit to doing one activity mindfully every day for the next month, in addition to the other daily practices.

Today we celebrate both outer freedom and inner freedom.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

It's when freedom isn't freedom at all that the confusion of time soon becomes a confusion of soul. It doesn't take long to figure out that to have no fixed time for the major parts of life is to have bartered our freedom away.

We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the "fresh life within" that age reveals to us, if we only give it a chance.

Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men and women to the fullness of life, the wholeness of soul, for which we were all made in the image and likeness of God.

after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong.

There were some things even the rules of an absolute human overlord had no right to deny, and one of them was justice

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.