George Carlin Quotes

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

A liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.

People should be able to do what they want in life and not be judged or put in a box or a category.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.

The beauty of America is people can do what they like.

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

What I'm really interested in is freedom.

Only the person who risks is truly free

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

Individual liberty is individual power.