Os Guinness Quotes

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Os Guinness

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Take

• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Day

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Freedom

• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Today
  • Parents

• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Judge

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Today
  • You
  • Movies

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Achieve
  • Finding

• In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Up
  • Comeback

• We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Up
  • Chaos
  • Saved

• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worry

• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Power
  • Today
  • Freedom