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

  Emilio Aguinaldo

  Inspirational, Single, Freedom

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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 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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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

  David Kay

  Country, Long, Track

  David Kay at Senate hearing, edition.cnn.com. January 29, 2004.

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• I appreciate very much being injury-free.

  Steffi Graf

  Appreciate, Injury

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• 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

  Special, Firsts, India

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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

  Mistake, Teenager, Twenties

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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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• The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

  Juan Williams

  Country, War, Political

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• 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

  Giving, Acting, Connections

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

  Randall Terry

  Fall, Foundation, Ten Commandments

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• 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.

  George Soros

  People, Firsts, Principles

  "Now on PBS" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.

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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

  Squares, Views, Towns

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• Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

  James Broughton

  Song, Laughing, Silence

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• 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

  Bipolar, Three, Illness

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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

  Basketball, Taken, Shooter

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• It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Struggle, Reality, Swag

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• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

  Hugh Laurie

  Inspirational, Morning, Thinking

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