Limited Freedom Quotes

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are.

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom

You cannot chose your parents. You cannot choose your gender. And in Russia, you cannot choose your president.

I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can't choose: your parents, your gender and your president.

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.