Quotes About Freedom

De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita. A veces me descubro mirándolo y me olvido completamente de mis obligaciones. Es lo bastante grande como para contener en su interior todas las cosas que un hombre puede sentir a lo largo de toda una vida.

But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.

Because if it's told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.

Dlaczego tak trudno siÄ™ uwolni? od to?samoÅ›ci, które nam przypisano, gdy byliÅ›my dzie?mi?

The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner's soul. This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.

A person can get up and leave her life. The world is that big.

We leave our bodies behind in this world so that we may take flight into the next.

What do I care, she whispers, for cities and princes and histories?

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men "well-rounded," like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man's mysterious encounter with his Creator. To

democracy can make common cause with tyranny quite well, for along with a "manly and lawful passion for equality … there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." It

Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.

Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;

It is precisely because we believe in democracy as a talisman, a heal-all, that we are prone to the disintegration of language that characterizes Life Under Compulsion. It

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.

A man is not defined but un-defined by autonomy: he loses his skin.

and am able to say exactly what I like without being called to account, and have complete freedom to do whatever I choose.

Tyranny, he once remarked, was a delightful place, but there was no way out of it.

Instead, he freed them all.

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE features of the Augustan regime was that speech remained free.

He wanted writers like Titus Livius (in English, Livy) to speak their minds on this subject without fear or favor.

till it jumped out of a jar and bit her). She was thirty-nine.

Il vantaggio più grande che la libertà offre agli esseri umani è quello di allontanarsi da ciò che infastidisce.