Quotes About Freedom

I became a person whose friends and hopes were as spread out as my life. It just felt natural that the one common element in that life was the road.

to making revolution, not just dinner.

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.

the love of independence and possibilities

He has given us all the gift of spontaneity—and hope.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

I can go on the road—because I can come home. I come home—because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

Our tactics must always reflect our goals. There is no such thing as killing for peace, strengthening people by making their decisions for them, or suppressing dissent to gain freedom.

laughter is a mark of wanderers

Je peux partir parce que j'ai une maison qui m'attend. Je peux rentrer parce que je suis libre de partir. C'est l'alternance qui donne toute sa saveur à chacun de ces modes de vies. C'est à la fois très ancien et très moderne. Nous avons besoin des deux.

Without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

For instance, Americans are supposed to cherish freedom, yet we imprison a bigger percentage of our people than any other country in the world. I talk to students who are graduating in crippling debt, yet don't connect this to state legislatures that are building prisons we don't need instead of schools we do need, and then spending an average of fifty thousand dollars a year per prisoner and way less per student.

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

If I know my Rachel, she will do what she wants to do. And perhaps that is the best.

Always remember that anything but death can be changed or ignored because most things people dread are man-made yet they seem so inevitable or basic.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Now I find my good men Are gathered in the night To wait in silence, not to sleep And the glorious word of liberty They whisper and murmur Till in unaccustomed strangeness On the steps of our temper Once again in delight they cry Freedom! Freedom!

Laßt mir Luft, daß ich reden kann!

Abro espacios a millones de hombres, espacios en los que tal vez no estén seguros, pero sí podrán estar activos y libres.

Solo merece la vida y la libertad aquel que tiene que conquistarlas todos los días. Y así, rodeados de peligros, el niño, el adulto y el anciano viven provechosamente sus años. Quiero ver una multitud así, vivir en una tierra libre con un pueblo libre.