The World Motivation
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
— Patrick Henry · Freedom
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
Today's women are not dependent, and I think it's the biggest sense of freedom.
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.