Freedom Expression Quotes

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way. I believe a lot of artists become activists because we rely on and value the freedom of expression and so we want to protect it.

I think it's important to realize that the players who are protesting aren't protesting the anthem. They're not protesting the flag. People kind of move the goalposts on them and try to tell them what they're protesting. But as they keep saying, that's not what they're protesting.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

That's pretty much how I feel on stage, like I can let go of all kinds of baggage, or even disappear and change outfits. I want to remind people that they can grant themselves the license to do the same.

Offensive or not, those who burn the flag to express their views are exercising a right that our founding generation fought a revolution to secure.

The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

I need to be able to rock out.

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

Dance until the earth dance.

What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.

Playing a sinner is very liberating!

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.

As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong, exactly the way that you can’t love, exactly the way that you can’t move ... and you’re on your way again. You’re on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

The nationalists' coup in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in February 2014 has hugely scared 2.5 million Russian people living on Crimea. So what did we do? We have not gone to war, we have not fired, not a single person was killed. Our soldiers have merely prevented the Ukrainian troops on Crimea from impeding the freedom of expression of the people.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

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