Quotes About Freedom

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

I don't really like Phil Robertson and I think his opinion about gay marriage is stupid. But in a country where we want an honest conversation, we have to realize that part of the honest conversation is hearing things we don't like and discussing them.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.

People say that they can't leave their homes without their phones; well, I can.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.