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.

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others...

Would rather live white than live free.

The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned...

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

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.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

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!