Quotes About Freedom

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.

I like getting fresh air.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

I don't think it's right for anyone to turn around and say 'stop drinking so much, don't eat fried food.'

I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.

If we can't have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won't at some point be made public, then we can't have private lives. And if we can't have private lives, then we're not really free people.

It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear.

If my kids want to have fries, you know what, I'm gonna let my kids have fries. If they are active and if they're moving, there's nothing wrong with having some fries.

The whole area of creativity is constipated and frightened.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it.

The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.

I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

I'm not really a fugitive.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.