Quotes About Freedom

It also gives him something he absolutely needs: the freedom to breathe.

She can stand on her own two feet. So, instead of feeling as if he's lost his freedom, he feels as though he's gained a strong woman. The relationship is a contributing force, rather than

Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don't get what you want.

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

Fantasies were like prisoners, less likely to stage a revolt if allowed judicious amounts of supervised exercise.

There was never a man present in all her dreams of freedom; there had always been only her, in glorious , splendid solitude, replete in and of herself.

When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.

This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are all cyborgs now.

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

I'm always one sentence away from bringing up democracy, religious freedom, the rights of minorities, all of these in danger.

Lizzy's inarching to her own drummer

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

My family, my parents are hippies.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.