Quotes About Freedom

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.

I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

If there's a partnership in doing a dangerous thing, there's a real sense of bonding. Plus, the feeling of freedom is sexy.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.