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Quotes About Freedom

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Thou hast been with the Monkey People—the gray apes—the people without a law—the eaters of everything.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The Wolves are a free people," said Father Wolf. "They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man's cub is ours—to kill if we choose.
~ Rudyard Kipling
the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free—
~ Rudyard Kipling
the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself
~ Rudyard Kipling
And it is I, Raksha [the Demon], who answer. The man's cub is mine, Lungri—mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee! Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Go!
~ Rudyard Kipling
dolphin-jump in the air
~ Rudyard Kipling
MOWGLI'S SONG (That He Sang at the Council Rock When He Danced On Shere Khan's Hide)
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! —Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I will remember what I was. i am sick of rope and chain.
~ Rudyard Kipling
India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;
~ Rudyard Kipling
When you find out you can live without it, go along not thinking about it.
~ Rudyard Kipling
One view called me to another; one hill top to its fellow, half across the country, and since I could answer at no more trouble than the snapping forward of a lever, I let the country flow under my wheels.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon      And you were a Christian slave,         ââ'¬â€W.E. Henley. His
~ Rudyard Kipling
Kagura, are you free now..? Did you ever... Become the wind?- Kanna
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Naraku holds my life in his hands. But I have no intention of remaining a servant forever to the likes of him! I am the wind. One day I shall be free!
~ Rumiko Takahashi
I am the wind...The free wind...- Kagura
~ Rumiko Takahashi
I am not like Kagura! I'm not Naraku's tool! I am my own master!- Hakudoshi
~ Rumiko Takahashi
It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath my feet, and somewhere out there, in the farmsteads and plantations ahead of me, swift retribution! Freedom! The bloody work of the Lord!
~ Russell Banks
He can take it and leave it, which is a much happier condition than having to do one or the other. He's not sure how this
~ Russell Banks
it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.
~ Russell Banks
On such an approach, Mill argues, anyone could demand as a 'social right' that nobody act in any way falling short of her own standards of perfection. He sees this as a 'monstrous' principle with the potential to justify virtually any interference with individual liberty – ultimately leaving us no zone of freedom beyond, perhaps, 'that of holding opinions in secret, without ever disclosing them' (Mill [1859] 1974: 158).
~ Russell Blackford
I'll defend the freedom to express our thoughts – though not an absolute freedom to attack each other verbally.
~ Russell Blackford