Quotes About Freedom

I come from a school of thoughts where I actually don't plan anything.

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

I have no agenda at all. I just want to do stuff I like. It can cost $200 million or $200 thousand.

She had never lived alone before, and at first found it strange, but gradually had learned to accept it as a blessing and to indulge herself in all sorts of reprehensible ways, like getting up when she felt like it, scratching herself if she itched, sitting up until two in the morning to listen to a concert.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them

The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Let's see, what are those four footling freedoms we used to hear about - freedom to eat, freedom to speak, freedom to get about - what's the other? Freedom from fear, that's it. Well, who's going to have freedom from fear with those bleeding M.P.'s snooping round after him?

I think gay marriage should be the national law.