I felt that I had, again, great freedom to do what I wanted to do. I felt that I was trusted to train my soldiers, and I was accountable for it.
— Mark Esper
I don't think of myself as having any freedom when it comes to how 'Monstress' is structured and how the story is going because a comic book has to be even more tightly structured than a novel, because there is no room for mistakes. Once the art is done, the art is done.
— Marjorie Liu
Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did later on.
— Marion Bailey
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.
— Marine Le Pen
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
— Marilyn vos Savant
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
— Marilyn Manson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
— Marilyn Ferguson
A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.
— Marianne Williamson
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
— Maria Weston Chapman
There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
— Maria Montessori
At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor, and a need for freedom amid corruption. At its best, noir offers a map of subversion.
— Margo Jefferson
We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
— Margarita Simonyan
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
— Margaret Sanger
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
— Margaret Haddix
I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
— Marek Hlasko
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.
— Marjorie Scardino
I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
— Marjane Satrapi
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.
— Mario Monti
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
The mission we are about is something that truly energises me. I feel that at Lockheed Martin we have the opportunity to make a difference... supporting men and women fighting for our peace and freedom.
— Marillyn Hewson
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
— Maria Semple
Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
— Maria Conchita Alonso
When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.
In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
— Margaret Mitchell
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
— Margaret Atwood
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.
— Marcus Luttrell
Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own.
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
— Marisa Tomei
I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.
I notice that freedom of expression of an E.U. member of Parliament who denounces the actions of ISIS allows the French government to take her to court.
The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
— Marilyn Monroe
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.
We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.
— Marguerite Moreau
To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
— Margaret Walker
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
