Freedom Quotes · Page 373

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

— Anonymous

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

— Carl Rogers

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.”

— Victor Hugo

To sacrifice personal freedom to gain creative freedom is a fair enough price.

— David Essex

“The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.”

— Michel Templet

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

— Will Rogers

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“But, Vietnam is different than my war. We were fighting for freedom back then. This, this war now, I don’t know what…

— Johan Twiss

“Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipulates that a choice must be…

— Mark A. Tietjen

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a…

— Doris Lessing

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all…

— Hun Sen

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time…

— Neal Ascherson

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle

Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you…

— Jacqueline Woodson

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The…

— Walter Russell Mead

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

— Julia Ward Howe

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.

— Raheem Devaughn

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

— Gene Sharp

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

— Anonymous

“Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.”

— Albert E. Bowen

“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.”

— George Orwell

“I am a free person. I am free to dream. I am free to pursue my dreams. I am free to love.…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

— John Ford

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

— Bennett Miller

“To look outside the box is inspirational. To live outside the box is total freedom.”

— Paul Buggs

Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and…

— Grant Shapps

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

— Barbara Boxer

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their…

— Tony Goldwyn

“No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. That is true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in it.”

— Paulo Coelho

“You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.”

— Michelle N. Onuorah

I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.

— Penn Jillette

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

— Paulo Coelho

“Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.”

— Doug Cooper

“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of…

— Blanka Vlasic

Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's…

— Mills E Godwin

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

— Henry David Thoreau