Quotes About Freedom

You may bury my body, down by the highway side Babe, I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone You may bury my body, ooooo, down by the highway side So my old evil spirit Can get a Greyhound bus, and ride.

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.

Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery.

It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.

Some forms of music spark the freedom of singers to say, in words or how words are sung, in pace, hesitation, timbre, shouts, or silences, what they most deeply and desperately want to say; other forms take it away.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

This stance makes no distinction between (1) the pluralistic standpoint of making sure people have equal rights and (2) the act of co-dependently making sure not to hurt anyone's feelings, however irrational they may be. We need to stop that nonsense. Getting your feelings hurt, quite frankly, is the price of living a in a free society.

Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.

You may have known for many, many years that smoking isn't good for you, but you're still smoking. You have become a master of deluding yourself. Direct experience is the only thing that can crush your delusion. If you really want to quit and be free, this is the most important step you can take in that direction.

Restlessness is the number one enemy of people who have just quit smoking.

I confess that during the citizenship application process the founding principles of this country have grown on me. I have come to believe in the ideal that "We the People" can come together "to form a more perfect Union". The United States represent the most awesome social experiment in the world—a melting pot of cultures, united behind the idea of living free in a democratic Republic.

Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion. Ils peuvent servir de viatique pour affronter les épreuves de la vie.

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