Quotes of: Freedoms Keyword

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Requiem

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

The Social Contract

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

The Shack

A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

Shattered Illusions

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Monster High

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.

Man's Search for Meaning

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

MapHead: No.2

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

Me Before You

When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace; and when you are in love with ‘what is,’ you experience bliss.

Nirvana: Absolute Freedom

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

No Longer Human

...we're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Nothing Special

Freedom meant one thing to him—home. But they wouldn't let him go home.

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Forgiveness is freedom. It's something you do for yourself - to keep who you are intact. Now that I think about it - in some ways, it's kind of a selfish act.

Lies Beneath

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Long Walk to Freedom

Freedom is not free! The Almighty offers these gifts contingent upon our willingness to turn to Him as a nation. It is a covenant relationship. That covenant is in force today, and the rules still apply.

The Lincoln Hypothesis

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Letter from the Birmingham Jail