Quotes About Freedom

I don't even compel my wife to wear a mangalsutra or a bindi.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

I love that denim can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Anything goes.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

I must concentrate all my efforts in the attainment of freedom for my people.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

I was very into the truancy concept.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.