Quotes About Freedom

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!'

'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.

We can decide to kneel to the mob and kneel to the state, cede all of our power over to the federal government, and then, you know, be confined to the ash heap of history. Or we can decide to come together and realize that we all want the same thing, which is a better America.

All too often affordable housing can be a block on mobility and aspiration, so instead Conservatives will ensure that living in social accommodation means that you'll get a 'freedom pass' to get on and do more with your life.

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.