Quotes about freedom

If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important is the essence. Although we still have free will We also have a whole lot to deal.

Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it. You think it's personal and private my neurosis... I think our story is performative philosophy.

Don't be so loyal to your mind the mind is not loyal to You.

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.

You do not love me you love my success!

The creature may not haste above the maker neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.

When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts but not the heathen.

Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit because your joy is not produced by what you put in your heart but by habit you put in your life.

Be careful because God's gifts alone are not able to give you joy God's gift can only bring you joy when they are joined with your gratitude.

Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good this is a graduated form of gratitude.

What is your motive when you go to church? To feed or to be fed? To serve or to be served? To worship or to be worshipped? To praise or to be praised? To teach or to learn? To give or to receive?Remember the woman with the issue of blood did not met Jesus in the church. Blind barthimus was blind though he could hear did not see Jesus but heard about Jesus passing I am just wondering how many people have heard about Jesus through you?Who was this man interested in? Your answer might be Jesus of c

'Network neutrality' is sometimes called 'Internet freedom' or 'Internet openness' and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men but over themselves.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

The country was in peril he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.

I believe in only one thing: liberty but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

A match as a penBlood on the floor as inkThe forgotten gauze cover as paperBut what should I write?I might just manage my addressThis ink is strange it clotsI write you from a prisonin Greece

Freedom comes from taking responsibility bondage comes from giving it away.

Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom I serve as a temporary volunteer

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate get up and rebel against it

Curtains are our prisoners they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!

Freedom is the most precious property I resisted the misery to keep my freedom.

One is not born free one becomes free.

Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.

The worst form of snobbery is to deny information to anyone at all. Always remember that. Bas as it is to look down on another human being: to act as censor? Unforgivable.

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

No one can give you freedom you only find it when you learn to overcome your fears.

By capturing you set me free.

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings free yourself from that person’s ugliness.

I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.

Men promise freedom while establishing laws God promises laws while establishing freedom.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be taken by the oppressed.

You can’t conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.

Happiness can't be made it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom in freedom alone can there be creativeness.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Your dream is to feel good God’s dream is for you to do good.

It is not easy to determine whether there are any who still adhere in good faith to the doctrine that traces back the depreciation of money to the activity of speculators. The doctrine is an indispensable instrument of the lowest form of demagogy it is the resource of governments in search of a scapegoat. There are scarcely any independent writers nowadays who defend it those who support it are paid to do so.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

But we do not merely protest we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

Don't live in the castles freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields security is in the castles!

The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own find the courage and forge your own path your essence is at stake

Individuals can only volunteer their will. The collective has no rights if not by the use of force and coercion. Collectivism is not a collection of individuals It is the complete denial of the individual and its rights. Socialism is not cooperation of individuals it is the denial of individual rights and individual dignity.

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other menit includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

Without freedom of sex all freedoms are temporary.

Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.

The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable.

It is no more appropriate to speak of a difference between the purchasing power of money in Germany and in Austria than it would be justifiable to conclude from differences between the prices charged by hotels on the peaks and in the valleys of the Alps that the objective exchange-value of money is different in the two situations and to formulate some such proposition as that the purchasing power of money varies inversely with the height above sea-level. The purchasing power of money is the same

Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.

Animals cannot have any high thoughts nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.

Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.

You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

Within a world of free trade and democracy there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world it is of no concern whether a nation’s sovereignty stretches over a larger or a smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. us territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion it is not painful to be fair to other people’s claims for self-determination.

I refuse to let fear subjugate all my freedoms & liberty I refuse to let it be the guiding beacon in my life.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

No one can escape slavery we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies and faiths.

Poverty can be brought about by law it cannot be forbidden by law.

America is like a roomy cage just enough choice-space where the animal doesn't go wild and feels free.

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

We must fight for the freedom of religion because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.

You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn't mean you've got any less choice than you ever did. Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us.

Blame anchors us into the past a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.

I am not a number I am a free man.

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom it was the lack of desiring freedom.

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

He is polite the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he’s about to do.

By 'the objective exchange-value of money' we are accordingly to understand the possibility of obtaining a certain quantity of other economic goods in exchange for a given quantity of money and by 'the price of money' this actual quantity of other goods.