Quotes About Freedom

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.

What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

the world is a rollercoaster, and i am not strapped i, maybe i should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air

ART is life, let's tattoo the world with art.

They will imprison you simply for who and what you are

We are merely escaped fugitives about to steal some horses to avoid a death sentence.

You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Words aren't meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing. I'm glad I feel this way, to remind me that I haven't always felt the same. Been the same.

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.

The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom.

You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You're the wind. You're the stars. You are all endless things.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Live, David," he said softly. "Live your life." "I'm doing that," I grumbled. "No. You are letting Steelheart live your life for you. He controls it, each step of the way. Live your own life.

I want control," she said, opening her eyes. "Not like a king or anything. I just want to be able to control it, a little. My life. I don't want to get shoved around, by people or by fate or whatever. I just ... I want it to be me who chooses.

In space, you don't really fly. You just don't fall.

It was a nice dream, wasn't it, Syl?" he asked. "That we could escape? Find peace at long last?" "Such a wonderful dream," she whispered.

There were great advantages to being unimportant.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.