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Quotes About Freedom

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's wonderful that Poland is free again and there's open debate and people can pursue their interests. I'm all for it.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
I have a very flexible and easy schedule that affords me a wonderful lifestyle in Los Angeles. I'm able to be a very present mother, able to pursue other projects.
~ Cobie Smulders
I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.
~ Goldlink
In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art. Here in the United States, those of us who pursue human flight are treated as criminals and are forced to travel abroad to seek one of man's most fundamental desires, to fly free.
~ Dean Potter
Republicans trust you to think for yourselves and to pursue your American dream however you see fit.
~ Daniel Cameron
What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have.
~ Luvvie Ajayi
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
~ Robert G. Allen
We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
~ David Crane
From my own country of France, I commit to pursuing the path of liberty - to be a free people.
~ Marine Le Pen
I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.
~ Shabana Azmi
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
~ Martin Van Buren
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
~ Sheila Heti
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.
~ Joshua Wong
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
~ Salman Rushdie
I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.
~ Nipsey Russell
Americans are defined by a history of immigration in pursuit of freedom and opportunity. We are more individualistic, enterprising, and protective of liberties that most Europeans do not expect, such as owning guns, working 70-hour weeks, or appreciating nature as it goes by at 60 mph on a snowmobile.
~ Jacob Weisberg
American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women's lives.
~ Hilton Als
Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.
~ Cole Sprouse
I didn't leave 'Bonanza' in pursuit of any particular goal. I left for my own good.
~ Pernell Roberts
What was really special about 'Hanna' as a character is her pursuit of agency.
~ Esme Creed-Miles
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
~ Gore Vidal
I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.
~ Jenifer Lewis