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Quotes About Freedom

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be
~ Alan Cumming
I looked up at myself in the mirror of my trailer. I had just had the most horrible conversation of my life, and the very last conversation I would ever have with my tormentor. I was free of him at last. I wonder what he would have done had he known that during that conversation, I was wearing high heels, a bra and panties, and a full face of makeup.
~ Alan Cumming
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting
~ Alan Dean Foster
She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!
~ Alan Dean Foster
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
~ Alan Dershowitz
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz
~ presentment
No one has a gun to your head. You are the primary agenda-setter in your life.
~ Alan E. Nelson
Communards died here, in 1871. They fought all night among the gravestones, then surrendered at dawn. The soldiers put them against this wall, shot them, and buried them in a common grave." "Are you a communist, Ilya? In your heart?" "Oh yes. Aren't you?" "No. I just want to live my life, to be left alone." There was a moment's silence, then Ilya said, "Now, a matter of some delicacy." They turned
~ Alan Furst
I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.
~ Alan Furst
Why are you here?" "To fetch the woman I cut from the veil of the rock." "Why did you cut?" "To send her spirit out, so that she would come to make the child, for me to teach to dance and sing and dream, to free the beasts within the rock to fill the world." "Have you found her?" "She is not here. There are only people horrible to see." "Where are your stories?" said the other. "I cannot tell them. My head is a cloud.
~ Alan Garner
we'd stood up to Hitler and the Nazis with the rest of the Allies.
~ Alan Gratz
It's not who you're fighting against that matters. It's what you're fighting for.
~ Alan Gratz
Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can't read except your parents.
~ Alan Gratz
Every book banned by the school board in this novel is the title of a book that has been challenged or banned in an American library at least once in the last thirty years.
~ Alan Gratz
Archie was getting seriously tired of being underground all the time.
~ Alan Gratz
Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it's valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.
~ Alan Gratz
It was a world war, and the fate of every nation on Earth, neutral or not, lay in the balance. When the war was over, the world would be ruled one way, or the other—by freedom or fascism, by hope or by fear. I had seen the depths, the lengths, the Nazis would go to win that war, sacrificing their own children to the cause, and I also knew firsthand the sacrifices the Allies had made to stop them. I
~ Alan Gratz
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
~ Alan Greenspan
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
~ Alan Keightley
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
~ Alan Keightley
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way that they have been told to.
~ Alan Keightley