Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I have the space and liberty to create.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

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

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

I am the freest author in the world.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

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.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Seeing is not always believing.