Quotes About Freedom

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

We want the people, in their private lives, to be completely free, and in today's world, having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all peoples, including the people of Iran.

I don't want anything to affect my freedom, and we don't want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.

I will obviously exercise my freedom of speech because I live in India, not in Saudi Arabia and Iran; freedom of speech is an integral part of the Constitution of India and I believe in respecting in whatever is lawful in India.

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

I remember being very free in Ireland.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

Americans have always risen to the moment, from defeating the scourge of fascism to bringing down the Iron Curtain.

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

It is the responsibility of filmmakers, actors and writers, who have the freedom to do the kind of work they want to do irrespective of whether it is good or not.

The decision to marry is every woman's entitlement, irrespective of her age.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

Islam and the Constitution are in clear conflict.

If you speak the truth - and I believe people should speak the truth about Islam - you pay a very heavy price.

Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.