Samuel Beckett Quotes

Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't, when what you really mean is that you don't want other people to feel the way you think that are going to feel when they see you making the choices you really want to make.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Would you rather be right or free?

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

You are either free or not free

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

I was born free.

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.