Live Free Quotes - Page 2

• Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Capacity To Love, Attention

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• Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fearless, Inspire, Truthful

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• In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

  Cesare Prandelli

  Sports, Football, Desire

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• A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.

  Philip D. Murphy

  Sorry, Father, Government

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• In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Attachment, Way, Homosexual

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• There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Country, Cities

  "Making cities safe for women and girls" by Michelle Bachelet, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

  Dan Lipinski

  Veterans Day, American Veterans, Us Veterans

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• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Pete Stark

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

  Alice Walker

  Justice, Diversity, Mississippi

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Who has magnificent self-confidence
  And fears nothing that exists?
  The man who has attained to truth
  And lives free of error.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Men

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• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Men, Crimes Against Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Citizens, World, Earth

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• People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Together, Littles

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• I don't want to just live delivered but I want to live free.

  Christine Caine

  Want, Just Live

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• Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow our people to continue to live free and unafraid. The decisions you make, the courage and creativity you bring to your responsibilities, will determine America's future. Liberty and our way of life are fragile gifts - their care is in your hands. We thank you for stepping forward to shoulder that immense responsibility. Your country is grateful, and proud of each of you.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Education, Country, Grateful

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• Long live free Quebec!

  Charles de Gaulle

  Long, Quebec

  Address to crowd before City Hall, Montreal, Canada, 24 July 1967

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• Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

  George Weigel

  Democracy, Generations, Capacity

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• What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

  Guy Finley

  Essentials, World

  Guy Finley (2011). “The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred: Journey to the Greatness Within”, p.3, Weiser Books

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• Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, Freedom

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Mist

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.48, David M Gross

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• Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

  Spartacus

  Memories, May, Arms

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• I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our national rights; and of course the friend of the indissoluble union and Constitution of the states. I am the enemy of all foreign influence, for all foreign influence is the influence of tyranny. This is the only chosen spot of liberty-this is the only republic on earth." "Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.

  John Stark

  Men, Rights, Evil

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• "Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
  "I want to be a soldier. A hero."
  "You'll grow out of it."

  Steven Erikson

  Hero, Boys, Decisions You Make

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.5, Random House

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• Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

  Catherine Anderson

  Fear, Real, Mean

  Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.193, Penguin

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