Freedom Quotes - Page 5

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.

I enjoy creating characters, telling lies, having freedom, being myself, challenging perspectives, arguing, creating something everlasting, following in hero footsteps, making readers cry or laugh and occasionally scaring the dinner out of people.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

You won't be benefited unless & until you give a chance.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.