Freedom Quote by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Download Open image ““People say they need freedom, but in fact, nobody wants freedom.”” — Ryunosuke Akutagawa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Freedom Fact Need Freedom People say Say Need Wants Freedom
“The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“A person doesn't try to obtain freedom if they think they're already free.” — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
“People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“they won't know what freedom is anymore. But then again, few people do.” — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
“Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.” — Angela Bushman Copy Share Image
“Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I noticed something peculiar when thinking about freedom. Everyone wants it but less are willing to extend the same freedoms to everyone. Seems inconsistent… — C.A.A. Savastano Copy Share Image
“Most people know nothing about freedom; only the facsimile of freedom into which they were inculcated.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Freedom is a hard thing to let go of even if you know you don’t deserve it.” — M.J. Winn Copy Share Image
Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.” — Ryünosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“...O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son. How dare you behave… — Ryunosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie -- boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“These works are handed down from teacher to pupil, from parent to child, almost without question, like DNA. They are memorized, recited, discussed in… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“...we could see the parapet of Ryougoku Bridge, arching above the waves that flickered in the faint mid-autumn twilight and against the sky, as… — Ryunosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
