Quotes About Freedom

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

I sort of throw away the definitions of gender - that boys are 'supposed' to wear blue and girls are 'supposed' to wear pink - and those gender roles and gender presentations. I do it on my own terms rather than based on what other people say I should do.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

You want them to have fun. If I don't like the way a horse looks, if he has his ears pinned back, I'll send him to the farm, let him go be a horse for a while.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.

In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.

The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

I've always had a fascination with pirates. You know, I've written a song completely inspired by I want this to feel like pirates, you know, fighting together, made a music video about it, yada, yada.

You can't go wrong with pirates. I mean, they're pirates. It's what everyone wants to be when they're a kid. Ninja, assassin, or a pirate - and now you can kind of be all three.

I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.

For anyone who's not familiar with 'Piper's Pit,' they need to know one thing - there's absolutely no rules.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

Brexit was the first brick that was knocked out of the establishment wall.

It was great to see the Berlin Wall come down.

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.

I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.