Quotes About Freedom

We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.

The border crossing is the most dangerous moment for anyone attempting to escape. But my brother and mother had been waved off by every armed border guard along that stretch of the river.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

I'm not very strict about my diet.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.

No one can dictate what I will wear and I am strictly against such moral guardianship.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.

I think that if you can work and travel, that is the best deal you can strike.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.