People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely.
Indian high chiefs were frolicking freely with young Arawak beauties.... Barons and Marquis from the court of Louis XIV were playing leapfrog on the grass.... In the motley crowd, I also saw Simon Bolivar.... The time of masks had assembled three centuries of human history.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
There is no freedom, no culture without work.
I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Education means freedom.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
To live! like a tree alone and free, To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood...
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.
Love of freedom, but not the freedom acquired at the expense of others' freedom,
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”
Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world,
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
To Educate is to Free.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
From now on, our duty as Negro-Africans is plain. We remain free to travel with the current, or to row against it.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber
primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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.
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.