Quotes About Freedom

My freedom of movement, the lightness of my step, the suppleness and flexibility of my body, I attribute to having definitely abandoned the corset, for an actress should wear nothing that is calculated to hamper and impede her movements.

I can't recall consciously deciding to trick time, but that is what has happened. Somehow Martin and I, instead of being leashed for all eternity to what happened sixteen years ago, instead of that being the huge Before and After defining my life, have been set free.

In the whole, long war, Seceshes never took one black prisoner of war. It was slavery or death if they caught you.

Time means nothing to me.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.