Quotes About Freedom

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

I don't need to work.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.