Quotes About Freedom

As I listened to the inmates' schemes to reenter the world, I did not miss the irony that we were being released while the innocent remained behind. We were the scourge on society. We were the "lepers," And we were about to be set free.

If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes a lot more enjoyable.

If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you've got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.

I want to have money, so I don't have to spend my life chasing money.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am...keep on rockin' the free world.

Keep on rockin' in the free world!

My private affairs are no concern of society's. Conventions are only made to be broken. Why shouldn't I have my own way of breaking them?

We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.

With a freedom unavailable to me as a historian, my imagination was feeding off history that I had written.

In my history books I have already had my say in clear language and discursive meaning about community. Now what history means to me in images is freedom from coherence, clarity, and collective representation. My images carry their own visual meaning, which may or may not explicate history usefully or unequivocally. For me now, image works as particularity, not as generalization. That is how art school changed my thinking about history and how visual art set me free.

A Walk on the Wild Side

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Without democracy there cannot be peace.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.