Being Free Quotes

241 quotes by 203 authors

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free… — Bono
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good… — James Broughton
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,… — John Dickinson
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read,… — Bernard Iddings Bell
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. — Nhat Hanh
I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our… — Marcia Gay Harden
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must… — Hans F. Sennholz
Yes, you must have the courage of being free. — Jose Carreras
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Gautama Buddha
Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that… — Charis Wilson
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." — Craig Scott
Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a… — David Bergland
True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes. — Nicholas Lore

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