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Quotes About Freedom

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.
~ Mason Cooley
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
~ Paul Simon
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
~ Philip James Bailey
It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
~ Seth Godin
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.
~ Tori Murden
I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
~ W. H. Auden
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.
~ William Westney
The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
~ Alain de Botton
I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.
~ Albert Einstein
I'm definitely the kind of person to wear underwear all the time.
~ Ashley Tisdale
Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.
~ Chuck Todd
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
~ Dylan Thomas
Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.
~ Robin Williams
On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.
~ Robin Williams
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.
~ Tamar Jacoby
Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws...
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
There was a law against Luke.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
its like you said? i lead my people- forth! zifnab carried on enthusiastically! out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire- desert? lenthan looked anxious again. fire? i thought we were going to the stars! sorry. wrong script zifnab said
~ Margaret Weis
The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender.
~ Margaret Weis