Being Free Quotes

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

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.

I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

Being free is a state of mind.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

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.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

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.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

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.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

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.

The greatest luxury is being free.

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.

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.

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.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

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

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.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

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.

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.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

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 "being free."

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.