Quotes About Freedom

I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.

It's a dream come true to surround myself with my own team and truly embrace my entrepreneurial spirit, taking complete control of my career and brand is so freeing.

In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.

I have been fighting for democracy since I was 15 when I organised a strike to oppose the Hong Kong government's plan to introduce the Chinese patriotic school education; 100,000 people surrounded a government building with students asking for democracy for every citizen.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings.

I had the most amazing childhood in the natural surroundings of Assam.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.