Quotes About Freedom

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

I went through this rebel period where I didn't want to dress up.

A lot of people ask why I don't fly for the airlines now. It's because of the rebel in me that doesn't like rules.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

I was never consciously rebellious but I suppose comedy is a sort of act of rebellion isnt it? Coming from a quite liberal background, it never occurred to me that there was anything to rebel against because you were allowed to say what you wanted to say.

When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.

We're skateboarders, we have rebellious ways.

The Earth needs rebels!

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden.

When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.

The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.