Quotes About Freedom

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

A marsh pheasant has to walk ten paces for a bite to eat and a hundred for a sip of water. But still it wouldn't want to be tamed and put into a cage. Even treated like a king, it could never be happy and content.

The story of the Prince does that to men. It breaks them down, removes the rubble, and builds a castle where there was once a prison.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

There is a huge difference between being bound in relationship by the joy of love, and being tied up in obligation and guilt.

Moon in the sky, stars out, the wide-open expanse of nothing: it made him feel free and alive as the daytime never did.

Our thoughts are free.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

To each his own. (Suum Cuique)

There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

You don't stop being who you are just because you've run away.