Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

I like to be a free soul.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Be alike independent of crowned-kings. money-kings, and land-kings.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.