Quotes About Freedom

I will do everything in my power to ensure our country is a place where everyone, whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation, can be themselves and live their lives with dignity and respect.

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist - that you have to be a brave and freedom-loving person.

I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.

Not like other countries, we will never ask anyone to fight for us.

In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power and wealth and standing, was able to enslave others. Don't torget, mankind has had wars where we sent armies to enslave other countries; history is full of slavery.

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

I don't think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that's what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.