Quotes About Freedom

Art frees us, through illusion, from the squalor of being.

Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly garments to write in secret.

Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.

La libertad es la posibilidad de aislamiento. Eres libre si puedes alejarte de los hombre, sin que te obligue a buscarlos la necesidad de dinero, o la necesidad gregaria, o el amor, o la gloria, o la curiosidad, que no pueden encontrar alimento en el silencio y la soledad. Si te resulta imposible vivir solo, has nacido esclavo. Puedes tener toda la grandeza de espíritu, toda la grandeza del alma: eres un esclavo noble o un siervo inteligente: no eres libre.

inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.

The belief that the main task in life is obtaining freedom from the tyranny of 'social fictions'. Money is the most important social fiction; one escapes its tyranny by acquiring it.

Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power.

If you cannot live alone, then you were born a slave.

Pertencer - eis a banalidade. Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas. Ser é estar livre.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. - The Book of Disquiet

No subordinarse a nada, ni a un hombre ni a un amor ni a una idea; tener siempre la independencia distante que consiste en no creer en la verdad ni, si la hubiese, en la utilidad de conocerla, ése es el estado en el que, según me parece, deber transcurrir en sí misma, la vida intelectual de los que no viven sin pensar.

One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.

But someone afflicted by tedium feels himself the prisoner of a futile freedom, in a cell of infinite size.

RenunÅ£area e libertate.A nu râvni nimic este putere.

Art frees us, illusorily, from the squalor of being. While feeling the wrongs and sufferings endured by Hamlet, prince of Denmark, we don't feel our own, which are vile because they're ours and vile because they're vile.

Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything? And

Aquela corja tinha nascido para escravos. Queriam ser anarquistas à custa alheia. Queriam a liberdade, logo que fossem os outros que lha arranjassem, logo que lhe fosse dada como um rei dá um título! Quase todos eles são assim, os grandes lacaios!

Desapegar-se, é renovar votos de esperança de si mesmo, É dar-se uma nova oportunidade de construir uma nova história melhor. Liberte-se de tudo aquilo que não tem te feito bem, daquilo que já não tem nenhum valor, e siga, siga novos rumos, desvende novos mundos.

To belong to something — that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

Nascer liberto é a maior grandeza do homem

Creeds, ideals, a woman, a profession – all are prisons and shackles.

Let me return to childhood and stay there forever, caring nothing for the values that grown men give to things or for the relationships that grown men establish between them.

O que eu quero deveras, com toda a intimidade da minha alma, é que cessem as nuvens átonas que ensaboam cinzentamente o céu; o que eu quero é ver o azul começar a surgir de entre elas, verdade certa e clara porque nada é nem quer.

Feliz, finalmente, quien renuncia a todo, y a quien, por renunciar a todo, nada le puede ser quitado o reducido.