We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
To renounce one’s liberty is to renounce one’s essence as a human being, the rights and also the duties of humanity.[Renoncer à sa liberté c’est renoncer à sa qualité d’homme, aux droits de l’humanité, même à ses devoirs.]
There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
It is inevitable that an external freedom, an independence of the encroachments of other men, such as has been achieved for the nation, should be so also for every member of it.
If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
