I thought the same thing, exactly. We always say that. you said it - - you should have refused to go to Rolny. I said it as soon as I got to Elbow; I'm a free man. I didn't have to come here!... We...

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God's grace gives us that freedom.

Why? Because I am a sovereign being and I do what I desire to do as I feel led. That is all.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things."

To be free of family and familiar surroundings.

Only by being absolutely free can one dance well, love well, and write well. All these activities are tremendously important.

And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

Liberated from Saturn, from the order that for years had kept us in line, our narrative organized and mindful of the conventions of story. Now the order had been upset, lost in a melee of voices that...

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

If liberation is not within me, it is nowhere for me.

"Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from...

Free is he who does not even know that he is free, nor that freedom exists, nor that prison exists. Free is not he who is beyond good and evil, but outside the obsessions of freedom and prison. To...

Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew.

Sex - positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young

What is it like to live on an island without being allowed to go to the sea?

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves. What, for instance, was the point of living under the same roof when the...

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak - and then as...

Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life...

She considered herself a comet sailing through the wind, and, frightened by her own inner mutiny, sometimes gave in to the temptation to think of someone who would put a brake on her impulses; but...

Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? You. But you should not have created me free.