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Quotes About Freedom

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
~ Billie Holiday
People often ask me if I'm jealous that later generations have earned more or had it easier than we did and I always say, not on your life! My reward has been watching women athletes who are freer now to concentrate on optimum performance, rather than worrying about making a living or creating places to play.
~ Billie Jean King
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
~ Billy Corgan
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
~ Billy Corgan
That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain...
~ Billy Corgan
When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself
~ Billy Idol
Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.
~ Billy Idol
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs. (Page 11)
~ Blaise Pascal
Circumcision of the heart, true fasting, true sacrifice, true temple;2 the prophets showed that all this must be spiritual. Not the flesh that perishes, but that which does not perish.3 'Ye shall be free indeed.'4 So the other freedom is just a figurative freedom. 'I am the true bread from heaven.'5
~ Blaise Pascal
Sixth, I was impressed by the variety of corporate structures and modes of governance that these companies had come up with. Because they were private and closely held, they had the freedom to develop their own management systems and practices, and several had done so.
~ Bo Burlingham
What does it say about this "God" that, even though he is "all-powerful" and could easily have prevented the Israelites from being enslaved in the first place, and then subsequently could have freed them once they were enslaved, he would instead choose to intentionally prolong the suffering of both the Israelites and the Egyptians merely so that he could show off his—powers? Is that God any kind of God to uphold or believe in?
~ Bob Avakian
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~ Bob Dylan
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
~ Bob Dylan
Don't follow leaders.
~ Bob Dylan
There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...
~ Bob Dylan
Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
~ Bob Dylan
You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free
~ Bob Dylan
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
~ Bob Dylan
If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
~ Bob Dylan
Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.
~ Bob Dylan
Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you
~ Bob Dylan
Be groovy or leave, man
~ Bob Dylan
Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides
~ Bob Dylan
We all like motorcycles to some degree.
~ Bob Dylan