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• True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

  Jack Canfield

  Inward, World, Limits

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Kindness, Hate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 11, 2010

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• I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom.

  Ali Larter

  Thinking, Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings

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• It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.

  Peter Padfield

  Pride, Government, Flames

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Character, Men

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• To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Shelves, Collectors

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.490, Harvard University Press

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• A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Meditation, Solitude

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspiration, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.29, SCM Press

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• The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

  Adi Da

  Love, Religious, Truth

  "The Parental Deity and the One to Be Realized" by Adi Da, February 7, 1983.

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• We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

  Jon Voight

  America, Support, Causes

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• Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

  Pope John Paul II

  Reality, Men, Temptation

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• True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Military

  "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.

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• You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Prayer, Discipline, Musician

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• Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Thinking

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• In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Knowing, Giving

  Russell Kirk (1996). “Redeeming the Time”, Isi Books

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• I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Dream, Stars

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• I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Distance, Book, Thinking

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z

  Max Brooks

  War, Order, World

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.83, Broadway Books

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• Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mean, Godly, Men

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• Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Christian, Islamic, Law

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Sky, Wings, Bird

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• The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Abortion, Slavery, Tyranny

  "Pope vows to defend Catholic church's 'pro-life' doctrine" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2005.

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• To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

  Ethan Canin

  Too Much, I've Learned, Force

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Media, Voice

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• True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Ignorance, Law, Joy

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