Quotes About Freedom

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.

Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom.

I love the idea of shifting power away from institutions and toward individual creative people.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

I started painting incidentally, but it is just another form of expression. No one can stop me from what I do. When you are acting, you are given instructions by directors. This is completely my expression and my identity. No one can tamper with it.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.

People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.

Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

Travel is a passion. I intend seeing the world.

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.