Freedom Quote by David Brin Download Open image ““Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.”” — David Brin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom
“Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.” — Angela Bushman Copy Share Image
“Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Freedom is a rare gift... Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away.” — T.T. Escurel Copy Share Image
“Actually, the most frightening power of freedom is to freely give itself up to the forces that stunt it.” — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
“freedom was simply being able to entertain the prospect of changing your circumstances.” — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“It seems that freedom is the most coveted commodity in the world: for just when one person decides to gorge upon it, those around… — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",… — David Brin Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
