Quotes About Freedom

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?

'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

Generally I'm against regulation.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

What we should all argue for is the use of freedom rather than having a monetary system with regulation domination that is run by a cartel and the special interests - that is the kind of system we have today.

We don't need any more regulation from government. You don't need overarching moralism to tell you how to live because human beings actually have a pretty well-developed moral center. The more government intrudes on the basic decisions you make, the further away you get from your natural morality.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

Nobody can stop your reign. Nobody can tell you what's good, what's not good, how to talk, or how nasty your song can be. The song can be as nasty as you want to be, if that's what you want it to be.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

This idea that in America you can be anyone you want - you can reinvent yourself. Well, I think that the Internet has maybe taken that kind of American idea and has democratized it for the world.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.