Freedom quotes

“You don't know what it's like, Bone, getting out on your own, then being dragged back home. You wait a few years, get yourself a sweetheart, a job that pays your own money, stuff you like to do that your mama says is silly or sinful. Just about everything I like in this world is silly or sinful. But then, mama, I don't care. I got my car and I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christina Ricci - Dee Dee

“I hate America. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas and stories and people dying, and then people like you. The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word free to a note so high nobody could reach it.”
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“This is going to sound real stupid coming from a man in prison. But for the first time in my life, I'm free.”
Denzel Washington - Whip Whitaker

“In the days of evil and anarchy you had freedom to, now you are granted freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
Victoria Tennant - Aunt Lydia

“Freedom... is the ability to challenge yourself far beyond the constraints of traditional rule and order.”
Dwaine Stevenson - Sammael

“- Fielding Pierce: I am so sick of having to apologize for being an American.
- Father Mileski: North American.
- Fielding Pierce: God, I'm so sorry. Yes, North American. But I can't help noticing that when people run to freedom they tend to wash up on North American shores. This country is till the best that we've been able to do in the whole...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce
John Carroll Lynch - Father Mileski

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
Oprah Winfrey

“A man with no ethics is a free man. I don't envy you that.”
Nick Nolte - Jake McKenna

“The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up.”
Emile Hirsch - Christopher McCandless

“- Boris Pochenko: Before you throw me out, I have three things to say. One: I released the boy from prison. Two: I'm holding free elections in the Spring. Three... Well, I can't think of something else.
- Joy Miller: One and two are plenty!”
Timothy Dalton - Boris Pochenko
Fran Drescher - Joy Miller

“Life and death are only temporary but freedom goes on forever.”
Lucas Black - Peejoe

- Marie: Mister, what does it mean... when a man "crashes out"?
- Healy: Crashes out? That's a funny question for you to ask now, Sister. It means he's free.

Ida Lupino - Marie
Jerome Cowan - Healy

“- Blu: You see, who needs flying?
- Jewel: Birds! Birds need flying. Flying is... err... freedom, and, and not having to rely on anyone. Don't you want that?
- Blu: Hmm, I don't know. Sounds a little lonely.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Blu
Anne Hathaway - Jewel

“Most of us keep that inner-being lock up, hidden away. A fiction writer doesn't have to do that. He doesn't have to hide it. He doesn't have to keep it from anything. He can let it out, bring it out into the open. Let it live, let it breathe.”

Timothy Hutton - Thad Beaumont

“Nobody likes a monkey on his back: I had three, and they were cramping my style. I was gonna' have to lighten the load.”
Mel Gibson - Porter

“Today, a man from Germany invaded Greece. He's already swallowed Poland, Denmark, Norway and Belgium. He's bombing London as I speak. Everywhere this man goes, he crushes the life and the freedom of his subjects. He sews yellow stars on their lapels, he takes their voices. In this country, we still have our voices. We can argue with them, and we...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles

“- John W. Creasy: The gunshot holds no fear, say it.
- Lupita Ramos: The gunshot holds no fear.
- John W. Creasy: You welcome the sound. In fact it's the sound that sets you free. You are a prisoner on this block until that sound sets you free.”

Denzel Washington - John W. Creasy
Dakota Fanning - Lupita Ramos

“- Hannibal Lecter: Given the chance, you would deny me my life, wouldn't you?
- Clarice Starling: Not your life.
- Hannibal Lecter: Just my freedom.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter
Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling

“He had chaos and civil war and hatred between the races. Sometimes I go to the Lincoln room at the White House and just pray. But you know, liberals act like idealism belongs to them. That's not true. My family went Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves. My grandmother was an abolitionist, those Quakers who founded Whittier, my hometown......” (continue)(continue reading)

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“An artist without freedom is like a bird without wings.”
Elya Baskin - Anatoly

“- Jean Villeneuve: [to the slave Occam] Here. A proper musket for you.
- Dan Scott: I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't like the idea of giving muskets to slaves.
- Jean Villeneuve: Your sense of freedom is as pale as your skin.”
Tchéky Karyo - Jean Villeneuve
Donal Logue - Dan Scott

“- Margot Frank: You mustn't do that.
- Anne Frank: I can't help it, I like watching people. I make up stories for them; imagining what their lives are like, what ours would be like, if...”

Jessica Manley - Margot Frank
Hannah Taylor Gordon - Anne Frank

“- Ross: The man with one red shoe... what's going to happen to him?
- Brown: He'll be just fine.
- Ross: And the girl?
- Brown: The deal was her testimony for her freedom. I think it was a fair exchange.
- Ross: Well, I don't think so.
- Brown: Well, since you're no longer director of CIA, and I am, it doesn't matter what you think.”

Charles Durning - Ross
Edward Herrmann - Brown

“Free speech works because most of us know when to keep our mouths shut.”
Kay Anderson - Kay Anderson

“Never count me out until the fat lady divorces me!”
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar