Freedom Quotes · Page 393

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

— John Edwards

“Leave a kid in a space of freedom and their creativity would flourish in a way no adult can imagine.”

— Tracy Sillato

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

— Robert Breault

No creature but human has practiced such a meaningless cause as looking for the meaning of life.

— Ilkin Santak

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

— Valerie Trierweiler

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

— Lynn Swann

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

— Dan Quayle

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

— Giulio Douhet

“As history proves time and time again, and like the fate of the Roman Empire, tyrannical rule is always brought down. Perhaps…

— Helen Jane Rose

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for…

— Anonymous

“Listen, child," Maame said. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon…

— Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to…

— Linda Stone

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above…

— H. L. Mencken

I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am…

— Mikhail Bakunin

All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out…

— Adyashanti

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

— Janet Frame

“If you ever reach that stage in life where you really couldn't give a toss about what others think of you, then…

— Daniel Kemp

“As long as there is a doer, there is no liberation. The doer is himself an illusion.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

— Richard Paul Evans

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

— Jean Piaget

If the prison is your heart, and the detainee is your eyes, and your hands are the handcuffs, then I don't need…

— BEKKO

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

— Pierre Trudeau

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost…

— Felix Frankfurter

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

— Ashly Lorenzana

“I would never forbid you. I can’t forbid you. It’s not in my power to, and it never should be.”

— Charlotte Stein

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

— Epicurus

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

— Harold Laski

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

— George Mason

“No se puede ser libre si se dedica uno a esperar a que el Universo se pronuncie. Si estás a merced del…

— Wendy Wunder

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

— Bruce Lee

“With each step we move forward no matter how hard it becomes how painful it is, for we seek something no evil…

— SarahMyriaCarter

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

— Benjamin Clementine

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

— Mikhail Naimy

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

— Natan Sharansky

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

— Suzanne La Follette

“You need realization of the Self and awareness of the Self in order to go to moksha (ultimate liberation).”

— Dada Bhagwan

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles…

— Ludwig von Mises

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

— Penn Jillette