Quotes About Freedom

Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

Hitchens: Since we only have one life to live, I can help people make it free as best I can, and assist them in their real struggle for liberty, which in its most essential form, is the struggle against theocracy, which is the original form of dictatorship and the violation of human rights.

Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo.

It was said six hundred years ago by a great man. He said, 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.

We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.

In the '70s, showtime was when I woke up. I might have been three hours late, but there was no such thing as curfews for shows. If you went to see a show, you would be there for the whole night. Nobody said it would start on time. If I was late, sorry, but it was just the right time for the show. Nobody left.

Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

I don't regret nuthin...

If magic is to be defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognize that no society will ever be free from it.

Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.

What others THINK you NEED to be or NEED to do is none of your business. Live your own truth without attachment to anything…

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

Chance imagined himself no stranger to the machinations by which people went about establishing the architecture of their own imprisonment, the citadels from whose basement windows one might on occasion hear their cries. Like Houdini, we construct the machinery of our entrapment from which we must finally escape or die.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Some cowboys got too much tumbleweed in their blood to settle down.

Life is like checkers. When you reach the top, you can move wherever you want.

We all seek stability," he quoted Langer as saying. "We want to hold things still, thinking that if we do, we can control them. But since everything is always changing, that doesn't work. Actually, it causes you to lose control." Yet if you understand reading as a mindful person, "uncertainty creates freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty

When you're in a coffin it's hard to think out of the box. Jack Taylor

She leaped into widowhood with glee.

The black-white rift stands at the very center of American history. It is the great challenge to which all our deepest aspirations to freedom must rise. If we forget that--if we forget the great stain of slavery that stands at the heart of our country, our history, our experiment--we forget who we are, and we make the great rift deeper and wider.