Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men.

Wireless networks are great. They enable a lot of freedom, but they also come with risks. Consumers need to protect themselves.

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren’t being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of...

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Freedom is a subset of survival.

The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is all of us. But freedom does not mean the freedom to...

We are demonstrating in order to protect press freedom in Kenya. Press freedom in Kenya is under siege.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

And in that moment of sun and joy, Lupe knew why she loved and also hated Salvador. He gave her wings. He didn’t try to lock her in, as had Jaime and the other boys...

I’m not working for MONEY, I’m working for my FREEDOM.

What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.

If someone isn’t in your definition of “gorgeous” or “beautiful”, it doesn’t give you the right to call them ugly.

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

To me, my husband was my son’s murderer. He was also my daughter’s molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every...

Brīvība ir tik dārga manta, ka pat vismazāko kripatiņu no tās negribētos atdot citiem.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them...

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;…Where the clear stream of reason has not...

Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.

Spirit of a dancer ages like whiskey for it experiences in each dancing act lifetimes of freedom.

Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I’m afraid. Critical...

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]

Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in...

I’m drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons – everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the...

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Kung hindi malaya ang bagay na may buhay, dapat man lang sana ay malawak ang kinalalagyan nito,” sabi ko.”Pero kulungan parin ang kulungan, gaano man ito kalaki,” sagot n’ya.

Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy,...

This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn’t run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored...

In alien lands I keep the bodyOf ancient native rites and things:I gladly free a little birdieAt celebration of the spring.I’m now free for consolation,And thankful to almighty Lord:At least, to one of his creationsI’ve...

The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment...

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

So deep is the conflict, I believe I cannot breathe for all the doubt, guilt and sorrow my sister is pushing into me as her hand presses harder upon my sore breastplate and her fingers...

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet...

The givers of true love hardly expect perfection

William: “I’m sure we can all pull together, sir.”Vetinari: “Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.