Quotes About Liberty

Socks may eat wherever they want to.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

There were many kinds of freedom, and the most precious ones were secret.

Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one's own soul was bound in chains?

I always believed freedom concerned the granted right to be different, without fear of repression.

Contrivances that require no food or water, that do not tire or grow lame, imagine the freedom of such a world as that would bring, Karsa Orlong." "People would go everywhere. What freedom in a smaller world, witch?

Anywhere, anytime.

Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.

When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or to write its epitaph.

El consuelo verdadero, puesto que solo existe para mí un consuelo verdadero, aquel que me dice que soy un hombre libre, un individuo inviolable, un ser soberano dentro de mis límites.

L'idée me vient finalement que toute consolation ne prenant pas en compte ma liberté est trompeuse, qu'elle n'est que l'image réfléchie de mon désespoir.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

The ways of men have no power over us.

Pharinet, more than anyone he knew, craved freedom.

To me, Burns expressed, in its most succinct form, the ideal and the essence of socialism — which had to do with justice, liberty and the overthrow of tyranny.

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

In einem freien Staat müssen Zunge und Meinung frei sein.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men.

A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people–women as well as men.

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