Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

To those who ignore, teach them {...} The culprit is not the one who makes sin there, but the one who made the shadow there.

But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are...

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

As best she could, in her secluded position, she was considering how she might secure further choices, and what they might be - once this, her first free choice, had played itself out.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls' hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.

I'm me, she whispered. MeNel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant.I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me.Every time she said the...

You talk of freedom - I've never had it! I've been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!

Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free:...

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?- No longer asks...

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. it said.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me-to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender,...

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan - no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.