Freedom Quotes - Page 10

• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, God, 4th Of July

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

  Damien Hirst

  Boundaries, Found, Wanted

  "You can puff all you like Damien, but the wind's gone out of Britart" by Nicola Kuhn, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 1999.

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• Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Passion, Heart

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• Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspiring, Blue, Sky

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.46, Penguin

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• If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Responsibility, Wish, Literature

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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

  Justice, Expectations, Being Free

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• You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

  Edie Brickell

  Prisoner, Feels, Ifs

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

  Pope John Paul II

  Hands, Trying, Together

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• ...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

  Pablo Picasso

  Plato, Mean, Artist

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• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Life Changing

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Butterfly, Deny, Mankind

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

  Mark Twain

  Liberty, Irreverence, Humans

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1479, Delphi Classics

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  If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Differences, Expression

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

  John F. Kennedy

  Perfect, Democracy, Easy

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• When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

  Henri Matisse

  Bored, Everyday, Paradise

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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Motivational, Self Control, Enjoy

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

  George W. Bush

  Failing, Tire

  "US announces formal peace talks over Afghanistan with Taliban". "The World Today" with Will Ockenden, www.abc.net.au. June 19, 2013.

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• Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Heaven, Anything Goes, Olden Days

  'Anything Goes' (1934 song)

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• Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

  Oscar Arias

  Men, Reality, People

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• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  Frank Herbert

  Discipline, History, Desire

  Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

  William Glasser

  Fun, Survival, Needs

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