A liberdade é, antes de tudo, o direito à desigualdade.

Não é livre quem não tem inteligência suficiente para adquirir ou defender a liberdade.

A liberdade custa muito caro e temos ou de nos resignarmos a viver sem ela ou de nos decidirmos a pagar o seu preço.

Não há direito de exigir consciência a quem se nega liberdade.

A liberdade não consiste só em seguir a sua própria vontade, mas às vezes também em fugir dela.

Mas onde se deve procurar a liberdade é nos sentimentos. Esses é que são a essência viva da alma.

A liberdade é um bem comum, e se todos não desfrutam dela, não serão livres nem os que se julgam como tal.

Enquanto a maioria dos homens não for livre, não se pode conceber o homem livre.

A liberdade, como a felicidade, é nociva para um e útil para outro.

Defendei a vossa liberdade, mas estimai a dos outros.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento. Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

Desejo tanto que respeitem a minha liberdade que sou incapaz de não respeitar a dos outros.

A exigência de liberdade é uma exigência de poder.

A liberdade é uma sensação. Por vezes pode-se esperá-la, fechado numa gaiola como um pássaro.

A maior parte dos males e misérias dos homens provêm, não da falta de liberdade, mas do seu abuso e demasia.

É livre a pessoa se pode avançar abertamente sem ter de utilizar artimanhas.

Liberdade significa responsabilidade, é por isso que a maioria das pessoas a teme.

A felicidade é parecida com a liberdade, porque toda a gente fala nela e ninguém a goza.

Não é livre o homem que não se governa a si mesmo; a liberdade existe na proporção do autodomínio equilibrado.

Para conservar a liberdade, a morte, que é o último dos males, não deve recear-se.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise distortion and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.