Richard Lovelace Quotes

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

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I don't like closed systems.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

I'm too old to be forced.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

Peace is restrained; this is free.

Well, my own men's collection always felt very free back in the days before Jil. Once you make it this kind of dialogue with other people, with a fashion show and clients and whatever, it becomes something else. Free meets not so free.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --