Quotes About Freedom

There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the economic freedom issues of the Right while still rejecting the big-government tendencies of both sides of the political spectrum.

Holding hands is such a simple, tender gesture - there should be no barrier to people loving who they want to love and being able to express that in public.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.

I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.