Complete Freedom Quotes

• I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Freedom

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• When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Truth Is, Given

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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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

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• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

  Ezra Pound

  Life, Freedom, Waiting

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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, Being Free

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

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• When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Laughter, Writing

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1817

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• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Government, People

  Interview with Human Rights Watch, Paris, November 10, 1978.

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• I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

  Richard Marx

  Bored, Way

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• Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

  Malcolm X

  Inspiring, Mean, Justice

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• My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Teacher, Children

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Trying, Novelists, Stories

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• Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Aversion, Sickness, Failing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

  Donald Rooum

  Suffering, Liberty, Demand

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.25, PM Press

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• Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

  Sylvia Kristel

  Jealousy, Thinking, Too Good To Be True

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• Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Freedom, Character

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• The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Giving, People, Needs

  "Celebration, introspection as India's billionth citizen is born". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2000.

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• Complete freedom from stress is death

  Hans Selye

  Stress

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

  Les Baxter

  Want, Way, Contracts

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• Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Problem, Slam

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• I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Giving, Wish

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• Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Letting Go, Walking Meditation

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• MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.

  Philip Treacy

  Ferrari, Collaboration, Campaigns

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