Quotes About Freedom

Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition....

The classical author who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of known rules is freer than the poet who writes down whatever comes into his head and is slave to other rules of which he knows nothing.

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

Those who deny our freedom do so on the basis of experiments that remove selves from their worlds and focus on elements of behaviour that are uprooted from the contexts that make sense of actions: or, more precisely, reduce actions to movements.

The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.

Libet's experiment illustrates how the (neuro-)determinist case against freedom is based on a very distorted conception of what constitutes an action in everyday

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

You don't get that opportunity often to press the reset button, get in a studio, and just be free and creative. I think that's such a special thing to happen.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.

I love seeing blank days in my calendar.

California is always in my mind.

I'm meant for California.

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

I miss California... I love driving.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

If David Goffin wants to remain calm and quiet, fine. But perhaps he would enjoy to have a little more freedom to show another side of his personality.

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.