Freedom Quotes
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What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.
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My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.
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True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
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Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. A leap from this bridge will set me free.
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Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.
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Sometimes they people throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
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All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
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It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
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A bedrock principle of religious freedom is that freedom is achieved only if it is achieved for all.
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My main theme as a songwriter seems to be a feeling of homelessness, of being in motion. The feeling of being somehow unmoored, a radical internal freedom that is very painful and also joyful.
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
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We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
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Consolidating power and merely delegating responsibilities are sufficient ways to maintain a single community, but they are terrible ways to exponentially reproduce Christian community. Movements occur only when the disempowered are given the freedom and responsibility to lead, along with the accountability to make it happen.
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In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always also help; He will show him the way by which he can gain his rights, his freedom, and therefore his future.
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I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.
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Fashion is a declaration of your own freedom.
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Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
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It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
