Quotes About Freedom

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind which tells us that we are worth far more than our money.

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.

The problem with money bail, for those who aren't familiar with it, is that it puts a price tag on freedom. It says to someone who is wealthy that no matter how dangerous you are, you can buy your way out.

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations, the government has employed nearly every weapon in its war chest to intimidate Hong Kongers into silence and to suppress their popular struggle for democracy and freedom.

Throughout our history, our fight for survival and freedom has been empowered by a secret weapon: Our unity.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.