Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can’t really ask for more than.
Money is time made tangible – the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner’s time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics… but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by ‘Shut Up India’ in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.
Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against… placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made – in my opinion, because it’s all so subjective – is where the artist had complete freedom.
Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.
But there is a corollary to freedom and that’s personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I’m walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
