938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.” — Ice Cube

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“Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.” — Robert Wyatt

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“With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.” — Dan Lipinski

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“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.” — Jim Morrison

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“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” — Jim Morrison

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“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” — Frederick Douglass

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“You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.” — Ron Paul

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“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, m--------e, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.” — Madonna Ciccone

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“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.” — Malcolm X

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“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” — Milton Friedman

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“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.” — Bobby Sands

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“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.” — Kurt Cobain

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“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.” — Johnny Depp

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“When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” — Maximilien Robespierre

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“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison

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“Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.” — Gary Bauer

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“I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.” — Miguel Jontel Pimentel

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“Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.” — Gerry Adams

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“My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.” — Clarence Thomas

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“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” — Hannah Arendt

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“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” — Samuel Adams

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