Quotes About Freedom

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

That's pretty much how I feel on stage, like I can let go of all kinds of baggage, or even disappear and change outfits. I want to remind people that they can grant themselves the license to do the same.

I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or that they need to go into medicine, or be an astronaut in order to please me - because I don't think that's very fair. I just want them to live their own lives. I don't hesitate at every opportunity to remind my children of that.

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

The Freedom Flag is a powerful, physical reminder of one of the darkest days in American history.

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

When I was growing up, I used to have dreams of going to fly. Being in space reminds me of that.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Languages and cultures are disappearing at an enormously fast rate, and many of them are in Canada. These are extreme examples of removal of freedom of expression - to actually lose a language and the ability to express that culture.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

Don't be afraid to remove your shoes if you are dancing late at night.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.