Quotes About Freedom

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

In our Constitution, it is said that we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. In my mind, unless that freedom is total, it is no freedom at all.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

I felt like a prisoner. In Qatar, you need a sponsor to get a work permit and you cannot leave the country unless you have an exit permit from your sponsor.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

You have only one life to live, so live it without worrying about what others may think.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.