Quotes About Freedom

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Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground

I'd a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I've been in for the past two years.

Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

Please, that is so antiquated. The institutions of male supremacy only have real power over you if you buy into that notion. Go found your own club and tell them they can't join. Or better yet, drop the idea of clubs altogether because they're exclusionary, and embrace some other, more flexible way of connecting with people.

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

Being and Nothingness by Sartre.

Tom Sawyer,

He did not even look back at the castle that had been his home. There, he would never even have a name. Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master.

I don't care what you think, so it's perfectly ok.

And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking place to the ground.

I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally." "Okay." "It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be awkward." "I said okay." "Okay, then." And he runs.

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Aveva abbandonato ogni piano d'azione; l'amore è la cosa migliore.

I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs:

And think how he has been brought up-, free from all the superstition and ignorance that lead men to hate one another in the name of God.

The best way to control a man is to do so without his awareness that he is being controlled, and the best way to do that is through the systematic manipulation of passions, because man tends to identify his passions as his own. In defending them, he defends his "freedom", which he usually sees as the unfettered ability to fulfill his desires, without, for the most part, understanding how easy it is to manipulate those passions from without.

Since man is a rational creature, he can only attain freedom through the exercise of his reason, something more difficult in the primitive state than in civilization.

Western societies are, by and large, individualistic societies. The most important entity in an individualistic culture is the individual person.

Somewhere over the rainbowBluebirds fly.Birds fly over the rainbow—Why then, oh why can't I?