Quotes About Freedom

Movies are about escape.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

1. Churches seem restrictive and overprotective. Self-expression has become one of the foundations of our postmodern culture. There is less concern about truth than about freedom to express feelings, ideas, and experiences. The demand for expressive liberty has certainly threaded its way into the realm of spirituality, as well—which poses a problem for many churches, since many young adults say their experience of church feels stifling, fear-based, and risk-averse.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

This, I understood in a flash, was why people liked to dance. It made you forget who you were and at the same time remember who you were always meant to be.

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.