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Quotes About Freedom

Either make your money work for you or you will always have to work for your money.
~ Marshall Sylver
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.
~ Martin Firrell
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
~ Martin Luther
Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
~ Maynard Webb
Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
~ Mike Leigh
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
~ Nigel Rees
There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.
~ Noam Chomsky
The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.
~ Patti Smith
I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
~ Patti Smith
Oulipo ends where the work begins.
~ Paul Fournel
Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
~ Paul Newman
I work without commercial considerations.
~ Unknown
I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.
~ Piper Perabo
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
~ Okky Madasari
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
~ Oscar Wilde
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.
~ Oswald Chambers
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
~ Ray Bradbury
Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.
~ Reggie Watts
With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.
~ Richard Benjamin
As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.
~ Unknown
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.
~ Ricky Gervais