Quotes About Freedom

I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

I don't pressure anyone to do anything for me.

Do what you want to do, and don't feel pressure to do what other people want.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

Adults don't have the opportunity to pretend anymore.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

Life is a pretty awesome ride.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

I was a dancer.

Not everyone is a good dancer but you just have to enjoy doing it. Dance as if no one is watching.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist. As soon as I said to myself, 'Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor,' it made me so free to do anything.