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Quotes About Freedom

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
~ Juliette Binoche
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky
I don't want to live like a prisoner.
~ Keri Hilson
I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.
~ Heinrich Boll
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
~ Irvine Welsh
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
~ Olivier Martinez
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
~ Hideo Kojima
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I have the responsibility to tell everybody that I am not the only political prisoner in Hong Kong and that there will be more coming.
~ Joshua Wong
Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.
~ S.E. Cupp
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
~ Gore Vidal
Not all political prisoners are innocents.
~ David Remnick
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.
~ Elliott Abrams
People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.
~ Gene Green
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
~ Hill Harper
I know prisons from the inside.
~ Jose Mujica
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.
~ Susan Burton
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
~ Lisa Bonet
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
~ Barbara Deming
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
~ Barbara Deming
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
~ Pavel Durov
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
~ William J. Brennan, Jr.