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 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.
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?
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.
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.
Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.
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.
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.
...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.
Freedom meant one thing to him—home. But they wouldn't let him go home.
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.
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.
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.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
This is just the way life is – sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating – and we just have to deal with it. That’s what freedom is.
Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
The reason the police buy water cannons is not only to control rowdy crowds, but also because my penis is not for sale. However, it is for rent, but not in the fight against freedom.
Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.
