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Freedom Quotes
"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality."
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"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."
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"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
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"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
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"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."
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"We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed."
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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
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"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."
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"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom."
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"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist."
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"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."
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"Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I'm happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass.Our parents taught us to be careful with glasses and with our bodies. They taught us that the passions of childhood are impossible; we should not remove men from the priesthood, that people do not perform miracles and that no one goes on a journey without knowing where he wants to go.Break this cup, please, I thought to myself, and release of all these damn misconceptions, the habit you have of only doing that which everyone agrees with."
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"God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. And in the end, when God asks you: "Who told you to kill one of my children?"And you tell him, "My leader."He will then ask you, "And are THEY your GOD?"
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about."
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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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"I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations."
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"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
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"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
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"Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being."
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"Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself."
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"Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission."
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"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."
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"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual."
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