Freedom Quotes
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."
"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
"Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself."
"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."
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window."
"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
"The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think."
"I'm single because I was born that way."
"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
"The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage."
"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"
"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."
"There is freedom waiting for you,On the breezes of the sky,And you ask "What if I fall?"Oh but my darling,What if you fly?"
"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."
"Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall."
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
"If it’s the last kiss, we’d better make it last. I hope you don’t have anywhere to be, because I have the rest of my life free."
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
"Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last."
"Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing."
"It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation."
"You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free."
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