Quotes About Freedom

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

I gotta be me. I'm going to go to ball games, because that's what I do. I'm going to go to live music shows, because I love live music.

I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

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

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

I don't give my money to the government.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!