Quotes About Freedom

An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect a new Babel. 'Postmodernism' represents that Babel perfectly, because when each speaks a language unrelated to that of the other - when language is not the basis of the communication that shapes our being - the only outcome can be fragmentation. In that sense, postmodernism is modernity come home to roost.

Lonesome Whistle." Credited to Hank and Jimmie Davis, it was one of a long line of prison songs.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

Cloaks are nice. You can wear a cloak and have nothing on under it at all. And you can go anywhere you want like that!

Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be glorious birds.

How the world so dearly loves a cage.

Harold: This is real nice. Makes me want to do somersaults. Maude: Well, why don't you? Harold: I'd feel stupid. Maude: Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.

The zoos are full and the prisons overflowing. My, my. How the world so dearly loves a cage." She

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills.

That's the beauty of things, right? People should be able to believe what they want to, follow who they want to

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

We [the United States] are trusted. We are trusted to fight aggression, to relieve suffering, to serve as inspiration to freedom-seeking people, to stand alongside our friends, and to welcome the tired, the poor, the huddled masses of other lands yearning to breathe free. That is who we have been, now are, and always must be.

Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.

There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a little freedom, that places them beside Pascal and St. Augustine as religious thinkers. Their view is saved from pessimism only by its mystical recognition of the possibilities of pure Will, freed from the entanglements of automatism

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence," he explained. "'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

A stray thought that maybe I should run away to South America started to sound like a good idea. I could change my name to Nikki Shelverstien and dye my hair a rich dark brunette. I could be a maid at a high-class hotel and pretend I didn't speak Spanish or English so everyone would leave me alone.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.