Quotes About Freedom

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

All of our columnists have areas of interest and expertise that they will return to frequently, but the subject matter of any given column is up to them.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a sort of subjective standard.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.

Call me radical, but I've always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public opinions: freedom of expression, and attacks on journalists.

An America disarmed is an America in subjugation.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.