Freedom Quotes

Tony DeLiso

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens. Tony DeLiso
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Michael Bassey Johnson

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Gilles Deleuze

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Gloria Steinem

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

David Foster Wallace

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Crystal Woods

Write like no one is reading.

Michael Joseph Murano

Rise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Bryant McGill

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

Leo Buscaglia

Man created words to free himself

Albert Camus

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Tara Brach

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Bryant McGill

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

Bryant McGill

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Svetlana Alexievich

For money I can buy one thing, I buy freedom.

David Foster Wallace

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

William Shakespeare

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Roman Payne

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

Roman Payne

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Tony DeLiso

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling. Tony DeLiso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

Patrick Rothfuss

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Roman Payne

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Roman Payne

She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city

Patti Smith

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

David Rovics

They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.

Bert McCoy

Don't be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.

Evelyn Leilou Colon

Freedom lies in being naked and the courage to be 'yourself' in front of the audience.

Roman Payne

She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

Roman Payne

When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at
The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

Charlotte Eriksson

I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.

Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Cynthia Voigt

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

Brenda Ueland

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Aimee Carter

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Alex Morritt

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

Tom Althouse

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Tom Althouse

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Tom Althouse

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Tom Althouse

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don't go as planned. And, it's not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not designed for you. It is not a part of your destiny.

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If the whole world I once could see
On free soil stand, with the people free
Then to the moment might I say,
Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Alan Sheinwald

Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped

Peter Viereck

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return - every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

Oliver Bowden

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

Evan Meekins

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.

Lewis Carroll

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Isabella Poretsis

Never expect to be given anything, other than love, for free in your life because if you do you will fail.

Alan Sheinwald

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

Amit Kalantri

After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

Isabella Poretsis

You should never do everything for free because you won't be able to survive alone or in comfort. But you should never charge for everything or too much because neither will the people who are giving you the money.

T. Scott McLeod

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

Jerril Thomas Abraham

it's not all about the direction,its about the destination.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Ashly Lorenzana

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

W. Somerset Maugham

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Kyung-sook Shin

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

Vera Nazarian

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

Tiffany Madison

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.

Cyc Jouzy

You Will Never Live A Perfect Life - Getting In A Relationship Is Like Diving In A Sea, You Can Drown And Whales And Sharks Can Kill You. On The Other Hand, Being Single Is Like Staying Away From That Water, You Will Starve.

Mike Norton

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

Richard Halliburton

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

Marty Rubin

One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.. Marty Rubin
One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.

Ale3ia

LOVE ~ TRUTH ~ FREEDOM
are three words that mean the smae,
and none may exist without the other present.

Herbert Marcuse

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Auliq Ice

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life.

Nikki Rowe

To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish.

A.J. Darkholme

We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.

Ellen F. Davis

Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world.

Nicole Bonomi

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.

They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.

James C. Scott

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

James C. Scott

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Bryant McGill

Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.

Carla H. Krueger

I enjoy creating characters, telling lies, having freedom, being myself, challenging perspectives, arguing, creating something everlasting, following in hero footsteps, making readers cry or laugh and occasionally scaring the dinner out of people.

William Faulkner

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

Sara Sheridan

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Tim Fargo

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

David Sedaris

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

Mark Fisher

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Yogeshwaran Selvaraju

You won't be benefited unless & until you give a chance.

Carsten Jensen

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

Swami Dhyan Giten

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

Noam Chomsky

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

Noam Chomsky

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

John Milton

Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Lauren Oliver

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.
But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.
We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

Shannon Hale

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Lauren Oliver

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Simone De Beauvoir

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

Amit Ray

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.. Amit Ray
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

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