Quotes About Freedom

It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

If I want to shave my head tomorrow and gain 50 pounds, or grow my hair long and lose 50 pounds, I have the freedom to do that. People will get used to it.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.