Quotes About Freedom

One of the main foundations of our country is supposed to be that we value individuality, and unfortunately, that seems to be getting lost.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.

I'm not very good at working indoors.

As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.

Why would you lock yourself in a situation that may not make you happy? I think that's highly inefficient.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.