Quotes About Freedom

You say it as you understand it.

Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you—it's the cage you live in.

If I have too much luggage, too much property, too many material goods, that makes me worry I have to defend this stuff—then in that case I will not have time left to take care of the things I really love, and then I lose my freedom.

I would start with three big, bold goals. One: ban surveillance capitalism, because people who are being hacked and deliberately hooked can't focus. Two: introduce a four-day week, because people who are chronically exhausted can't pay attention. Three: rebuild childhood around letting kids play freely—in their neighborhoods and at school—because children who are imprisoned in their homes won't be able to develop a healthy ability to pay attention.

We are not imprisoned in the values that have been making us feel so lousy for so long. By coming together with what really matters, we can begin to dig a tunnel back to meaningful values.

On Lenore's street when she was a kid, everyone played softball and policed the rules themselves. Today, they go to organized activities where the adults intervene all the time to tell them what the rules are. Free play has been turned into supervised play, and so—like processed food—it has been drained of most of its value.

Let Grow is based on the idea that if children are going to become adults who can make their own decisions and pay attention, they need to experience increasing levels of freedom and independence throughout their childhood.

Padecer depresión y ansiedad consiste en un proceso por el que te conviertes en prisionero de tu ego y no dejas que entre el aire del exterior.

Just as we are rescuing the sex drive from our subconscious and from shame, so we need to take the intoxication drive out into the open where it can breathe.

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there is no other means than free contracts, by which to form combinations or build up relations of any kind. Compulsion by laws of any kind or in any form is absolutely excluded by the very orders of liberty and equality.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Alle Revolutionselemente, alles Menschheitsempörende, was sie wo anders in Großen haben, das haben wir Krähwinkler in Kleinen. Wir haben ein absolutes Tyrannerl, unsern Bürgermeister, wir haben ein unverantwortliches Ministeriumerl, ein Bureaukratieerl, ein Censurerl, Stadtschulderln weit über unsere Kräfterln, also müssen wir auch ein Revolutionerl und durch's Revolutionerl ein Constitutionerl und ein Freyheiterl krieg'n.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

I più trascorrono la maggior parte del tempo lavorando per vivere, e quel po' di libertà che rimane loro li spaventa a tal punto che ricorrono a ogni mezzo per liberarsene. Oh destino degli uomini!

Only the perverse fantasy can still save us.

Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.

I sing as the bird singsThat lives in the boughs.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.