I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Only you can control your future.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.