Christine McVie Quotes

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Our job is to make people free.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.

Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

I didn't need taming. I needed saving.

The people are their own liberators.

I have not brought you freedom, I found it here among you.

Privacy matters. Privacy allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

I have never felt vulnerable nor restricted in my movements.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.