Quotes About Freedom

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.

I have said what millions of people think and find. It is a travesty that I have to defend myself in court for this.

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.

If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

I think PR people are caught in this mindset of 'control of the message.' There's a lot more freedom if you give up control. If you allow people to say things that are genuine and admit mistakes and get on.

I was just always kind of a free spirit with a wild side, but when you a meet a person that just makes you better and makes you better at life, your mindset changes.

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

I'm not for laws. We need a minimum of laws.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.