Quotes About Freedom

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

She'd been in survival mode for so long that she hadn't been able to dream about her future. She was finally free to do so.

I remember my favorite nights were just getting drunk and walking around outside the East Village kicking over garbage cans. Just the night. Just that it would be night again. And you could go out, you know? It just seemed glorious. (Please Kill Me.)

It was a Midwesternized version of anarchy. Tear down the walls, get the government out of our lives, smoke lots of dope, have lots of sex, and make lots of noise.

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

Green little vaulter in the sunny grass.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

I miss being a kid. I got food, clothing, and shelter for free. Grownups only get that in jail.

And we refuse to surrender control because we deep down think we have to justify our existence rather than be justified by the free grace of God.

Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.

There's more to life than safety

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

I'm not rich enough to do anything I want to do. But I know what you mean; I'm rich enough to avoid doing the things I don't want to do.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.