If you fear something, set it free. If it comes back, it’s probably going to kill you.
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Quotes tagged ‘Freedom’
We lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say ‘They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.’ The freedom, God help us, to say ‘I was only following orders.'
Only in our dreams are we free.
Our United States of America Has quickly become a global empire Come on, see it now for what it really is Power hungry, nothing much to give Violent, all in the name of freedom
you enter the world’s quietest room and realize that you have been singing for years in a soft, unusual language you discover mouths all over yourself they want things now.
Do I want to settle down or have the freedom to move around?
During the Second World War, psychologist Erich Fromm asked in Escape From Freedom why, despite an overarching trend toward greater personal freedom, large chunks of the western world had embraced authoritarianism. It was tempting, he argued, to consider this an aberration, the fault of a few madmen…
Most have roots where I’ve got wings.
I believe in my ability to set myself free.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
When you're lost, you're also free.
'Mankind.’ That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, o…
The freedom of being home alone.
Smart girls have lives of their own. They will not live their lives for you. They will not hang on your every word. Plus, they know that if things don’t work out, they will need others to fall back on, and they won’t have those others to fall back on if they spend every free moment with you. So give…
There is shame. There is fear. And there is a dizzying freedom.
— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.
Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.