#free

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. ↗

— William Weld

#good #government #living #owes #people

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. ↗

— William Weld

#analysis #area #consistent #economic #extend

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. ↗

— William Weld

#bad idea #flow #free #free flow #goods

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#allowed #could #freeh #intelligence #louis

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out. ↗

— Allen West

#afghan #army #both #carrying #challenge

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. ↗

— Cornel West

#always #barack #barack obama #being #black

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. ↗

— Mae West

#free hand #give #hand #man #over

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#free #fun #going #i #i think

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious