Quotes about Freedom

Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.

We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.

The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.

Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

Missão, Tereza, é uma palavra idiota. Eu não tenho missão. Ninguém tem missão. E é um alÃ

Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway