Bryce Dallas Howard Quotes

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.

I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

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.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For me, this is bigger than basketball.

Everybody has the right to decide their own fate.

It's choice that makes us human.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.