Unfree Quotes

#1. A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

Brian Crozier

#2. Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Jack Kerouac

#3. Women's liberation did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.

Germaine Greer

#4. Every human being is ... equally unfree, that is, we ... create out of freedom, a prison ...

Otto Rank

#5. We are unfree, unhappy, and unsettled when we allow things outside of our control, like other people, circumstances, events, or even illnesses, determine our internal attitudes and emotions.

Kevin Vost

#6. With free mind, is there anything that you cannot create? With unfree mind, is there anything that you can create?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

#8. To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.

C. Wright Mills

#9. The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.

C. G. Jung

#12. A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

Angela Carter

#13. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

Patrick Pearse

#14. The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.

Chad Harbach

#15. For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Walter Rodney

#16. Love must always start free - but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.

Gregory A. Boyd

#17. An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Audre Lorde

#20. As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Patrick Pearse

#21. When free men stand, they will always carry on and lift Liberty yet unfree men shall always struggle to fight for freedom and liberty until they attain it.

Auliq Ice

#22. Gandhiji was not born in freedom. All his life, except for a few months. lay within the framework of colonial rule. A good part of that life lay buried in prison cells. Yet he was always the free man, while those who held him imprisoned were the unfree ones.

Bhabani Bhattacharya

#23. It is important to demonstrate to the unfree world that one of the privileges of democracies is to enjoy freedom of travel and intercourse and the exchange of knowledge and ideas. [Gerald Barry, from article in English Speaking World, 1950.]

Harriet Atkinson

#24. How to avoid the danger of polarizing life into work that is meaningless because it is unfree, and leisure that is meaningless because it has no purpose?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#25. Freedom is not a constitution, or the day it is declared, it's a long process and all of us, each one of us removing the constraints that keep us unfree.

Ari Sitas

#26. The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

Ken Burns

#27. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#28. We didn't know you were an introvert, we thought you were just a bitch.

Sophia Dembling

#29. Hate had begun to paralyze his thinking, he realized, to make little blind alleys of the roads that logic had pointed out to him in New York.

Patricia Highsmith

#30. You say we worship the sun; so do you.

Tertullian

#31. I t was a well-known fact among Christian homeschoolers that public
schools were bastions of gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, rap music, pop culture, secular humanism, witchcraft, and body piercings.

Josh Sundquist

#32. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Oskar Schindler