Quotes About Freedom

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

I'm disturbed by the words missing from the Trump campaign: Liberty, justice, freedom, and tolerance.

I cannot tell everyone what they must say or what they must not say. Everyone is the owner of their own words.

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

If you're thousands of feet up with just a thin piece of webbing that you're standing on, it's really a sensation of being at one with the air.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Christian abolitionists gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery.

You know, one of the disappointments about - for me, personally about being released - is that I left thousands of people behind. Now that 'For Life' is here, and here for everyone, it gives me the ability to touch millions at the same time.

Thirty years ago, this promise, this allure of democracy, drove hundreds of thousands of people in East Germany onto the streets. What courage they showed! It was these brave people, these peaceful heroes and heroines, who brought the Wall tumbling down.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.