Quotes About Freedom

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom - proclaims the film's respect for facts and truths that can't be squeezed into a smooth narrative.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

'Nothing to lose' means I can go out there and try to play like I'm playing, without pressure, without nothing.

I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.