To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

Anything can be a curse if it ain’t a choice. If it’s all you know. If you do it because your father did it. And you do it because it’s familiar and safe and you’re...

I’d watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal – against normal, not beside it. Locks didn’t cure; they strangled.

Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That’s like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it.

Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved but does not know it. Only the homeless are free, and for their...

Our so-called leaders speakWith words they try to jail youThe subjugate the meekBut it’s the rhetoric of failure

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan’s education began. He didn’t want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was...

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched,...

I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn’t be free.

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.”What sort of tools?”More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance....

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less...

So they’re looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain’t my style. I don’t do no sing alongs, with my freedom.

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted

Sometimes the best gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their happiness.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don’t have the choice you are not free.

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So...

Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation”. And they say...

The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon’s walls, she owned them not at all; her...

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the...

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But...

Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free.” The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, “How about that?

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online...

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything” – Laney

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe,...

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.—written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above...

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower….beautiful in essence.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future,...

… and if you chance upon a treasure that is yours and it happens to be in the possession of someone else, it’s not very wrong to take what is yours, to take what you...

And then it happens all at once and unexpectedly. That is how things happen, I suppose. You pack your bags and find yourself walking yourself home.

I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I’ve noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when...

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and...

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can’t be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on...

Do you know, we’re right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine...

There is always a choice.” “You mean I could choose certain death?” “A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest...

Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.

I missed the war and the freedom that came with it. When you are that close to death, you feel free. Every breath you take could be your last. So you inhale and savor each...