Being Free Quotes

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

Being free is a state of mind.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.