Being Free Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  People, Giving, Clubs

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• The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

  Tom Scholz

  Bills, Panacea, Mankind

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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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• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Might, Salinger, Standards

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

  Emilio Aguinaldo

  Inspirational, Single, Freedom

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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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• The greatest luxury is being free.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Luxury

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• 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."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Two, Kind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Deregulation is a popular term that's used across the political spectrum. And it's one of these terms like "choice," that corporate interests have used because they know their focus-group buzzword testing makes it sound like a popular word. Because, who can be against deregulation? Being free, having liberty, not having someone tell you what to do, being deregulated, hey, that sounds great. But deregulation is a non sequitur in the realm of media policy or media regulation. The issue is never regulation versus deregulation; our entire system is built on media policies and subsidies.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Choices, Political, Liberty

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• Having money is a way of being free of money.

  Albert Camus

  Money, Way

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.46, Vintage

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• Being free is a state of mind.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mind, Politics, States

  Song: Believe

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• 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

  Splendour, Clutter

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• We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom for which we stand is not freedom of belief as we please,... not freedom to evade responsibility, ...but freedom to be honest in speech and action, freedom to respect one's own integrity of thought and feeling, freedom to question, to investigate, to try, to understand life and the universe in which life abounds, freedom to search anywhere and everywhere to find the meaning of Being, freedom to experiment with new ways of living that seem better than the old.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Children, Integrity, Responsibility

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• As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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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

  Helping, Rich

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• 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.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Facts

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Freedom, Acceptance, Reality

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• In my work, hair denotes the flow of life prior to being freed from pain. I fill the hair with human struggles such as deep-rooted anxieties, stubborn attachment to life, obsessions, and restrictions. Appearing fluid like a live organism, the hair symbolizes longevity and patience, but when it appears coarse, the hair expresses an energetic life force and freedom.

  Hyon Gyon

  Pain, Struggle, Anxiety

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom? In America we speak of living in a free country. But are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit-it is freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Country, Freedom, Fighting

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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 Barclay

  Christian, Mean, Doe

  William Barclay (1961). “The Letters of James and Peter”, p.240, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Self, Dust

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• Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

  Bella Thorne

  Girlfriend, Dancing, Inspire

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

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

  Angela Merkel

  Mean, Doe

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• 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

  Real, Likes, Bondage

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 114, 1973.

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