Quotes About Freedom

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.