Joss Whedon Quotes

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

None but the dead have free speech.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Security without freedom means slavery.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

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.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

You are either free or not free

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

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

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.