Unfree Quotes

• 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

  Freedom, Badass, Bad Ass

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

  Audre Lorde

  Feminist, Fearless, Different

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.132, Crossing Press

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• Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

  Patrick Pearse

  Revolutionary, Ireland

  Speech at grave of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 Aug. 1915

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• The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

  David Icke

  Being Yourself, Fear, Thinking

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sleep, Bed

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.123, Penguin

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• Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Essence, Today

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Opposites, Conservative, Politician

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• If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Often Is, Important

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 162), 2002.

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• An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Bells, Jars

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• With free mind, is there anything that you can not create? With unfree mind, is there anything that you can create?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Can Not

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• The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Liberty, World

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• I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Freedom, Being Free, Purpose

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• I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Simple

  "The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State".

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• 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

  Stupid, Ugly, Malls

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• There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

  Natasha Lyonne

  People, Rough Patches, World

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• 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

  Mother, Men, Self

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• 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

  Men, World, Want

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.187, Univ of California Press

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• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

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• Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Children, Freedom, Fall

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mean, Self, Discipline

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Routledge

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• 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

  Suicide, Faces, Doe

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

  Walter Rodney

  Struggle, Men, Oppressed

  Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.131, Fahamu/Pambazuka

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• In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?

  Cal Thomas

  Country, America, People

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• Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Support

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• For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.

  Ernst Junger

  Spiritual, Transition, Camouflage

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