If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

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

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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 thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.