Quotes About Freedom

She wears a freedom ring in one ear, you know, the earring that Chalcedean freed-slaves must purchase and wear to prove they have been granted their freedom. I asked her once if she had bought her freedom, or if it had belonged to her mother. She was quiet for a time, and then said it was a gift from her one true love.

You can wait a very long time for them to give you your freedom. Taking it might be faster.

She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283

Why not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?" "And all women, too." She must be Sparse's daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise. "It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly. "A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

his touch sketched the window of her freedom as she danced.

The puppet dances, He turns flips and he jigs. His painted red smile looks happy but he is screaming, for he performs on red-hot coals. His wooden feet begin to smoke. A man comes in with a shining axe. He swings it. I think he will cut off the puppet's burning feet, but instead the axe cuts all his strings. But the man with the axe falls just as swiftly as the puppet leaps away, free.

Love can exist without need

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no Kings.

Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

For time is the great enslaver of us all.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

You think that is true, but I assure you it is not. Death is better than the sort of captivity they plan for you. I have been a captive, a toy for heartless men. I made them fear me. It is why they sought to sell me. It was why your father could buy my freedom.' 'I do not know that tale.' 'It is a dark and sad one.

Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.

No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another.

Existuje místo, kde veÅ¡kerý ?as je nyní a vÅ¡echny volby prosté a vždycky tvé vlastní.

My life has become too heavy with purpose. I cannot remember the last time I did something simply because I wanted to do it.

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?

The Chalcedean slave trade had largely created the pirates and their settlements.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.

She could change. She wasn't chained to her past. She could become someone who wasn't merely a product of what others had done to her. It wasn't too late.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too

The small folk of a land can only be oppressed so long before they rise up in their own defense, be it against outlanders or an unjust lord of their own.