Quotes About Freedom

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed.

We should aim to make ours a world where people feel free to do things they enjoy, even if others are mildly inconvenienced, but also one where we all refrain from harming other people if the effort involved to avoid harming them is small.

I can think of no wiser financial investment than in self-knowledge. It is the path to freedom, at many levels. By sorting through painful past experiences, irrational beliefs, and unacknowledged fears, people can become free of these chains and find healthier ways of coping than making money and consuming things.

Si te liberas de esa compulsión, pensó Paul de pronto, si escapas de esa necesidad de engatusar y convencer y seducir, lo que quede después serás tú, tu verdadero ser.

Freedom, what crimes are committed in thy name.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

The people and the mindset that killed 3 000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3 0, but 300 000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything

I used to make a nest in the closet of my bedroom with pillows and blankets and a flashlight and a book. My own tiny world, sacred and inviolate, where I could reign entirely at my own whim and discretion.

Come have a drink with me?" "Isn't it early for that?" Callie shrugged. "We have a saying: 'It's always five o'clock in space.

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.