#freed

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

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

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life. ↗

— Paul Getty

#choice #father #freedom #had #i

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#brother #brother and sister #child #doing #freedom

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#defend #freedom #future #god #i

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#anew #conquer #day #each #earned

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#earns #every #every day #freedom #his