Quotes About Freedom

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and that character's life story.

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

The one thing about America is you have the freedom to think what you want and do what you want without the government interfering.

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

Individuals in very small groups are about the only thing that is free of the disease of the embedded growth obligation.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.