George Orwell Quotes

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Freedom is from within.

Freedom resides within the soul.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Freedom is control in your own life.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

I enjoy making the decisions.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.