Quotes About Freedom

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.

Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.

I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

I want to see the next Reagan. I want somebody who brings out the good in Americans and challenges us to aspire to that North Star, someone who wants to empower our families and individuals and communities and let them be free to achieve their dreams. That's what's going to make this country again.

Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

You have a real freedom when you don't have to worry about what you look like.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I love the fact that I don't have a real job!

In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.

Real love is more than a one-time, seemingly iron-clad pledge that we will never be apart. If you're over 20, you've probably figured out that meaningful love isn't constricting; it doesn't chain you to one place or to each other.