Quotes About Freedom

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

As was true in Iraq and Libya, the United States has no credible government or leader able to bring order, security, and freedom to the people of Syria if Assad is overthrown.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.

I myself hate the communist North Korean system. That doesn't mean I should let the people in the North suffer under an oppressive regime.

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

America certainly is a great country with plenty of freedoms, but there are a lot of systemic issues that need to change.

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.

And many thanks to you, Mrs. Blackwell, for bringing the weaknesses of our cell locks to our attention. She broke out twice," the officer informed Saxon. "We finally had to tie her up.

The Appalachian Mountains. Perhaps a little more uncivilized than he cared for, but anything was better than marriage.

Didn't never say I'd kill the man. 'Course, never said I wouldn't, neither. Y'see, I got a mind to git out and see this country one day, Saxon. Ain't never gwine leave these hills ferever, but thur's a passel o' thangs I don't know nothin' about. And who knows? Maybe whilst I'm a-travelin', I'll come acrost ole Barton Winslow. The world's big, but thur's only so many places a man can hide.