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

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

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.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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

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

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

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.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

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.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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

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.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

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

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.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

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

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

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.

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.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

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.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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