Words worth keeping

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.