Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

I am pro-freedom.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

We have the right to be idiots.

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.