Lack Freedom Quotes

My parents never leave me alone.

I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

Today, I see that many of our citizens are not free. They are dependent.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.

I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.

I don't get to do quiet time.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

We are four millions of Britons who were not free.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Twenty-five million people who live in North Korea are denied freedom in every respect of their lives. In short, they are hostages. Imagine 25 million hostages.

The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

It was clear from very early on that I would work in the family company. There was not really ever another option or idea.

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.