Being Free Quotes - Page 6

• A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Mean, Everyday, Ease

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• I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  Cameron Crowe

  Swimming, Race, People

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• Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

  Janette Oke

  Freedom, Servant, Knows

  Janette Oke (1993). “The faithful father”, Bethany House Pub

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• Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, People

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• and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Bears, I Can

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

  Khalil Gibran

  Freedom, Men

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• At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Men, Perfect

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Ease, May

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• And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Money, Thinking, Needs

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.313, The Floating Press

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• Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Money, Concerned, Oneself

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.102, Arcade Publishing

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• Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.

  Joseph Story

  Men, Rights, Law

  Joseph Story (1873). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.353, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Religious, Philosophy, Special

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• Before being free, it is necessary to be just

  Alexander von Humboldt

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• We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Wall, Powerful

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.150, Modern Library

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• There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

  James Monroe

  Responsibility, Men, Price Tag

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• I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Single Mom, Simple

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Progress, Age

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• It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Mistake, Moving, Hands

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• Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

  Floyd Dell

  Laziness, Doing Nothing, Belief

  Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”

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• Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

  W. Arthur Lewis

  Ideas, Progress, Individualism

  W. Arthur Lewis (2013). “Theory of Economic Growth”, p.172, Routledge

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• When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

  Mooji

  Dream, Illusion, Enjoy

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• Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

  Thucydides

  Courageous, Depends

  History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 2, ch. 4

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• There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.

  David Foster Wallace

  Choices, Hazards, Weak

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• I came to love the rhythm of the sound effects and the whole experience of listening to a story. I made a lot of stuff with my hands and so I loved being free to not watch a screen. I still love it to this day.

  Larry Fessenden

  Hands, Listening, Sound

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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