Freedom

"All power to the people"

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Love and do what you will."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."

"Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight."

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

"There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom."

"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves."

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."

"The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women."

"In Pakistan when women say they want independence, people think this means we don't want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make decisions for ourselves. We want to be free to go to school or to go to work."

"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."

"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

"This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none."

"I try to break the barrier, break the border, and give freedom to film and allow myself to show the painting in the middle."

"The creative person has to dissolve all 'should' and 'should nots'. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars."

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship."

"Surfing is the purest form of self-expression and the ultimate connection to nature."

"Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven."

"Surfing is the art of wave riding, and the ultimate feeling of freedom."

"Riding a wave is the ultimate feeling of freedom and pure joy."

"Surfing is the connection to the energy and spirit of the ocean."

"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."

"I’m not really concerned with what the general public think of me, or my motives or my actions. I don’t really give a damn, and less and less as I get older."

"No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."