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

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’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Empire and liberty.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

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

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

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

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.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Rather be dead than cool.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

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.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

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.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.