Quotes About Freedom

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.

What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.

I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.

There are many innocent people in prison.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

When you realize that your freedom is being taken away from you, you're like, 'You know what, I'm not going to get good food in prison, so I'm going to order McDonald's, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A.' We're turning up and living our best life, and I did that.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

Prison, I don't want to go back there again.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.