Quotes About Liberty

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

Fluir en la vida acontece cuando se alcanza la libertad y ésta no es otra cosa más que el logro de la trascendencia con respecto a toda estructura limitante.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The other day I was shocked to come across, I think, the only remark of Bertrand Russell I have ever seen which seemed to me to betray an acute sense of class: 'There is, on the whole, much less liberty in the world now than there was a hundred years ago.' I have no measuring-rod for liberty, and do not know how to balance the lesser liberty of few against the greater liberty of many. But on any standard of measurement I can only regard the statement as fantastically untrue.

A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world!

Dimmi, Homer, possiamo davvero dirci liberi, se lo siamo solo quando ce lo permettono? (pag. 98)

Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.

LA PRESENCIA ES LA LLAVE de la libertad, de modo que sólo puedes ser libre ahora.

Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air en sky are free. -Daedalus

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free;

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?

Não é verdade, monsieur, que o grande valor está em manter a própria liberdade intelectual, em não escravizar o nosso poder de apreciação, a nossa independência crítica?

Women ought to be free—as free as we are

A sua afirmação - as mulheres deviam ser livres, livres como nós - ia até ao fundo de um problema que no seu mundo se convencionara não existir. Boas mulheres, embora injustiçadas, nunca exigiriam o género de liberdade que ele pensava, e homens de espírito generoso como ele ficavam - assim no calor do argumento - cavalheirescamente prontos para conceder-lha.

Las mujeres deberían ser libres..., tan libres como nosotros —declaró, descubriendo algo cuyas terribles consecuencias estaba demasiado irritado para medir.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss to the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.