Quotes About Freedom

There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.

Democracy provides the space for open criticism.

I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent narrative.

My father always encouraged me to do whatever I wanted, providing I was happy. He wanted me to go to school, but because I never wanted to, it was the only thing we argued about.

When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I just don't like closing doors. I can't do it psychologically.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

I don't miss public school.

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.