My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give...

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take...

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.

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Your imagination is the key to the door of freedom

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best - solve problems.

In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

Here's how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, appreciate the gift of...

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human...

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

"Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from...

Free is he who does not even know that he is free, nor that freedom exists, nor that prison exists. Free is not he who is beyond good and evil, but outside the obsessions of freedom and prison. To...

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak - and then as...

Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life...

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others...

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

To those who ignore, teach them {...} The culprit is not the one who makes sin there, but the one who made the shadow there.

But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are...

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.