7,738 Quotes About Freedom

People, though, and living things ... their sense of self is ... complicated. Mutable. It changes. People don't think of themselves as just as bag of flesh and blood and bones, even if that's what they basically are. They think of themselves as soldiers, as kings, as wives and husbands and children ... People can convince themselves to be anything.

To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean.

The travelers’ dances were wild and carefree and, summer after summer, Penelope learned to reveal her deepest truths through movement. The choreography of freedom had a hypnotic sway.

Anyone can choose to have success, but only the patient ones will get rewarded by it. Be relentless in chasing your dreams.

Children must have absolute freedom, I insist on that. No rules, no demands, no brainwashing, no punishment.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

Sovereign 17 wants no sovereignty.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

There is for man no preoccupation more constant or more nagging than, while in a condition of freedom, quickly to find someone to bow down before.