Quotes About Freedom

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

I've got to literally write my own ticket.

I don't like country music, so I won't buy a ticket. That doesn't mean I should be outside protesting.

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.