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, antes de tudo, o direito à desigualdade.

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.

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.

'Instructions Not Included' is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a special project. They love seeing their own people; they want to see themselves onscreen. In my case, I know them pretty well. I know what they laugh at. I think it's going to open a lot of doors, this movie.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

I am truly humbled. Not only that I am going to be known as the final Top Model but as a final Top Model who is deaf! And that is an amazing tagline. This proves that deaf people can do anything and everything.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

New York is my home.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn't SETTLE for it.

A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.