Your Freedom Quotes - Page 6

• Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

  Annie Dillard

  Rip, Expression, Trying

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Bread, Action

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.840, Library of America

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• as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Loneliness, Law

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• My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Unhealthy

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Fighting, Smoking

  "The Situation" with Monica Crowley, www.nbcnews.com. August 17, 2005.

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• Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre?
  As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Thinking, Long, Phenomenal

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications

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• What do you plan to do with all your freedom?

  Tori Amos

  Plans

  Song: Scarlet's Walk, Album: Scarlet's Walk

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• Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Independence, Growth, United States

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.237

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• I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Choices

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.157, Penguin

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Heart, Self

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• Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Freedom, Heart

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• Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

  Andrew Skurka

  Lucky, Pennies, Young

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

  Maya Deren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ideas

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• The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

  Kate Grenville

  Tyrants, Ideas, Perfection

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

  Frank Herbert

  Stronger, Principles, Asks

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.174, Penguin

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• I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

  Douglas Adams

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

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• Please use your freedom to promote ours.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Freedom, Use, Human Rights

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• Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Giving, Looks

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• As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

  Lindsey Graham

  Children, Freedom, Responsibility

  "Graham rebukes Paul on vaccines" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Valuable

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Criminals, Crowds

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• Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

  James Lee Burke

  Age, Fear Of Death

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• When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

  Robert Kennedy

  Brother, Jobs, Hate

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
  Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
  That keeps you from achieving what you want.

  Tony Robbins

  Keys, Giants, Locks

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• The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

  Humphrey Bogart

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