Being Free Quotes - Page 5

• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  Peter Gabriel

  Writing, Thinking, Listening

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

  Danny Silk

  Dream, Symptoms

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• 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.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Profound, Belief, Insult

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

  Rosa Parks

  Long, People, Use

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Generosity, Bounty

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

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• The reson I don't own a cell phone is I like making plans and being free and being normal, the way everyone was back in the 80's. Kill your cell phone.

  Brent Weinbach

  Cell Phone

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Fondnesse it were for any being free,
  To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Freedom, Bees, Golden

  Edmund Spenser (1842). “Poetical Works ...: Miscellaneous poems”, p.326

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• To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone being free, and having autonomy and dignity. It's not pitting one gender against another, it's not saying anything is better, it's just clearing away injustice.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fighting, Rights, Democracy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• My liberty depends on you being free, too.

  Barack Obama

  Liberty, Depends

  Remarks by the President in Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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• The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Ambition, Air

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• 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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Temptation, Bounds

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

  Donald Miller

  Things In Life, Needs, Best Things

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Want

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Art, Use, Wonderful

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

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Way, Worthwhile

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Justice, Expectations

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

  Lucinda Williams

  Real, Writing, People

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• I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

  John Popper

  Dream, Order, Needs

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• True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Liberty

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• Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Believe, Fighting

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• You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Powerful, Worry, Anxiety

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• I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

  Angelina Jolie

  Taken, Want, Way

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview with Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com. August 10, 2016.

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• I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Powerful, Thinking

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