J. L. Austin Quotes

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

Freedom is living without chains.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I've been a free man.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Freedom has no history.

Freedom Danced Before My Eyes

Liberty is the absence of impediments—barriers.

Freedom is not freedom unless you are free!

Freedom is not something you're even trying to fight for; you are free. Go. Make sure you live free every day.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

I am a free man.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.