Jenny Downham Quotes

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

Sometimes freedom demands a measure of sacrifice.

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

I don't have to be in politics.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.