#free

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#competition #conceive #courage #designed #embody

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

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

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. ↗

— Theodore White

#earn #free #however #living #make

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#aware #choose #decisions #forced #freedom

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#also #eight #freedom #i #morning

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#debt #finances #free #had #ministry

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. ↗

— Juan Williams

#being #buried #collateral #conversation #correctness

Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us. ↗

— R.J. Rushdoony

#freedom

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#concentrated #dictators #free #government #government power