Real Freedom Quotes

• The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

  David Foster

  Inspirational, Freedom, Sacrifice

  David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Real, Lying

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivational, Freedom, Real

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• The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

  Mike Tyson

  Freedom, Real, Mma

  "Tyson 20 years down the line" by Gareth A Davies, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 22, 2006.

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Graduation, Freedom

  "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

  Kenny Loggins

  Forgiveness, Freedom, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Real, Choices

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.65, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

  Rollo May

  Real, Stimulus And Response, Ability

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Real, Justice, Diversity

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• Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Freedom, Real, Knowledge

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• For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Real, Bread

  "Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat". Pravda, No. 250, November 07, 1919. Collected Works, Volume 30, pages 107-117, www.marxists.org.

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• We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Wild And Free, Free Yourself

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• Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Real, Men, Mind

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

  Paula McLain

  Wall, Real, Garden

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• I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Thinking

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• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Airplane

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

  Jon Katz

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

  Vandana Shiva

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  "In the Footsteps of Gandhi: An Interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Scott London, www.globalresearch.ca. February 03, 2016.

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• Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Opinion, About Yourself

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.15, Zondervan

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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, Real

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.337

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• All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

  Anna Brackett

  Spring, Real, Exercise

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Independence, Feminism

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• I'm standing for real freedom.

  Todd Akin

  Real, Standing

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