Being Free Quotes

• Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

  Bill Rodgers

  Life, Mean, Winning

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• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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

  Paul Tillich

  Decision, Risk, Rooted

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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• 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

  Feminism, Desire, Modern Woman

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• 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 market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

  Bono

  Brother, Distance, Unity

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Breaking Rules

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Education, Strong Women, Passion

  "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Freedom, Book

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.108, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

  Andrew Wilkow

  Relationship, Being Yourself, Freedom

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

  Leonid Afremov

  Depression, Art, Freedom

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  Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Life, Strength, Teacher

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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

  Vernon Howard

  Freedom, Numbers, Measurement

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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• Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

  Harvey Mackay

  Money, Freedom, Business

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• We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

  Emilio Aguinaldo

  Inspirational, Single, Freedom

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• This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Freedom, Moving

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Men, Identity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 98, 1799.

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• In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Years, Wind

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12

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