Freedom Quotes - Page 38

• Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

  Russell Means

  Mean, Land, Able

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• Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Thinking, Definitions

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• When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

  Pema Chodron

  Doors, Inspire, Agendas

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.183, Shambhala Publications

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• From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

  Thomas Paine

  Cheer, Blow, Gun

  Thomas Paine (1850). “Miscellaneous poems of that noble of nature, Thomas Paine”, p.11

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• Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Anarchy, Dictatorship

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.148, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

  William E. Simon

  Love, Breathing, Ephemeral

  William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

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• Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Long, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.74, New World Library

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• The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spirit, Ends, Supreme

  Sri Aurobindo (2000). “Essays on the Gita”, p.475, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

  Gao Xingjian

  Heart, Burden, Restriction

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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

  Two, Being Free, Kind

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

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• Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Libertarian Party, Democracies Have, Government

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• The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Race, Democracy

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Roots, Desire

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• All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Life And Death, Effort

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• The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.

  David Bornstein

  Thinking, People, Half

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Gestalt, Patterns, Consciousness

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• Never follow anybody else`s idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one`s nature than to live following somebody`s else`s nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one`s nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Self, Ideas

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• Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

  Rajneesh

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• The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Soul, Doe

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• `Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting, not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Becoming One, Silence

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• Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana - and that is the goal of life. And it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by you, by your very presence.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Blessed, Men

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• Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Space, Keys

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