quotes about Being Free
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
-- Adam GopnikSource : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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Having money is a way of being free of money.
-- Albert Camus -
At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.
-- Albert SpeerSource : Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
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I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.
-- Angela Merkel -
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I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free. And I won’t.
-- Angelina Jolie -
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
-- Ben Harper -
These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
-- Bill McKibben -
Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
-- Brett Somers -
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There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.
-- Carole Katchen -
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
-- Carrie Fisher -
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
-- Carroll Quigley -
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 many people get from being well dressed.
-- Charis WilsonSource : Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”
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One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.
-- Danny Silk -
I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.
-- Dee WallaceSource : "A Conversation With Dee Wallace". Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.
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I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
-- Dennis Rodman -
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
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We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.
-- Donald Miller -
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
-- Edmund Spenser -
And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
-- Emma Goldman -
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
-- Floyd DellSource : Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
-- Georges Bataille -
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 not impose controls on others.
-- Hans F. Sennholz -
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.
-- Ingvar Kamprad -
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For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.
-- Izzeldin Abuelaish -
There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.
-- James Monroe -
Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free
-- Jamie Hewlett -
Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.
-- Janette OkeSource : Janette Oke (1993). “The faithful father”, Bethany House Pub
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As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.
-- Javad AlizadehSource : "Cartoonist Alizadeh, translating world into humor". Press TV, April 23, 2009.
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No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.
-- Jean-Paul MaratSource : L'Ami du peuple newspaper, No. 559, August 27, 1791.
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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 you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
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, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away; taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.
-- John Dickinson -
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But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
-- Jon KrakauerSource : Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.295, Pan Macmillan
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Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
-- Jose Carreras -
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
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Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
-- Jupiter HammonSource : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
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I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.
-- Lana Del Rey -
Being free is a state of mind.
-- Lenny KravitzSource : Song: Believe
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The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.
-- Maria Montessori -
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I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
-- Molly Ringwald -
When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.
-- Mooji -
Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.
-- Natalia GinzburgSource : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.102, Arcade Publishing
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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
-- Natan Sharansky -
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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 LoreSource : Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
-- Paul Tillich -
True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.
-- Ralph Washington Sockman -
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
-- Randall Terry -
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The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
-- Russell Means -
Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -
India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
-- Stafford Cripps -
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At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
-- Steve Wozniak -
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
-- Thucydides -
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
-- Tom Scholz -
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
-- Upamanyu Chatterjee -
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
-- Victor Hugo -
Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.
-- W. Arthur LewisSource : W. Arthur Lewis (2013). “Theory of Economic Growth”, p.172, Routledge
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Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
-- William BarclaySource : William Barclay (1961). “The Letters of James and Peter”, p.240, Westminster John Knox Press
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Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.
-- Joanna BrooksSource : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.221, Simon and Schuster
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I need a prison in order to dream of being free.
-- John Popper -
I came to love the rhythm of the sound effects and the whole experience of listening to a story. I made a lot of stuff with my hands and so I loved being free to not watch a screen. I still love it to this day.
-- Larry FessendenSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
The reson I don't own a cell phone is I like making plans and being free and being normal, the way everyone was back in the 80's. Kill your cell phone.
-- Brent Weinbach -
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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
-- Benjamin Constant -
We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.
-- Morgan ParkerSource : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
-- Rosa ParksSource : Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan