Quotes About Freedom

The best part about being in the 'showbiz' industry is that you can voice your opinion.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

I keep my opinions to myself. I've always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every happy cloud that passed In such strange freedom by.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Con libertad, libros, flores y la luna, ¿quién no puede ser feliz?

Don't spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide and has many marvellous people in it. Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm that possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all bad.

artists have sex but art has none

to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world

the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves