Quotes About Freedom

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

We were all one, all the languages and all the people and all the states. We are one country and we have the freedom to talk in any language.

Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country.

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.