Freedom Quotes · Page 344

“Yoga gives you the freedom to choose, but it does not guarantee you will choose freedom.”

— Darren Main

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

— H. L. Mencken

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

— Byron Katie

The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.

— Leopold Zunz

“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".”

— Susan Cain

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

— Rick Perry

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

— Ayn Rand

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

— Abbie Hoffman

“Life inevitably translates into time. That is why the sum total of it is called ‘a lifetime’. Freedom is the potential to…

— Gil Scott-Heron

People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and…

— Chester Brown

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human…

— Amity Shlaes

“Freedom from the cloak of secrecy is integral to a teaching that gives primacy to direct experience, inviting each individual to test…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can…

— Paul Ryan

“Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and…

— Richard Bach

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in…

— Gail Carriger

“Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora…

— Enock Maregesi

“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

— James Madison

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

— John F. Kerry

“Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.”

— Chriscinthia Blount

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

— Jenna Jameson

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

— Bobby Sands

There is nothing in the world more real than the freedom you feel once you have come to completely love yourself.

— Anonymous

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

— William S. Burroughs

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

— Barack Obama

“Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.”

— Ashim Shanker

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

— Anonymous

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my…

— Sting

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

— Albert Camus

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

— Frederick Douglass

To hold Old Glory, a symbol of freedom and liberty to many around the world, not just in the United States, this…

— Eddy Alvarez

The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.

— Ben Domenech

People long for conversation that is simple, but not trivial, meaning that is deep, but not inaccessible, love that binds, but values…

— JT Squier

“If one does not have fear at the time of death, then know that the 'visa' for liberation has been attained!”

— Dada Bhagwan

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

— Muhammad Ali

“... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.”

— Olivia Manning

“Friday is a purple-velvet-sofa day for some poor woman who's finally reclaimed her life. A purple velvet sofa is a gal's symbol…

— Beth Hoffman