Sergey Brin Quotes

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

Education liberates a woman.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

Only the educated are free.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Self Emancipation

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind.

The people are their own liberators.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I believe that we all have freedom to shape our own life and the world around us.