938 private quotes tagged freedom

“But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.” — Anita Roddick

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“It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.” — Jon Stewart

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“A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.” — Kemal Ataturk

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“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.” — Mortimer Adler

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“But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.” — Buddy Rich

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“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.” — Ramana Maharshi

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“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.” — John Calvin

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“I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.” — Boyd Rice

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“A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.” — George H. W. Bush

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“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.” — Barbara Boxer

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“Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!” — Sylvia Kristel

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“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.” — E. M. Forster

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“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.” — Merle Haggard

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“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.” — Bill Moyers

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“The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.” — George W. Bush

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“But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.” — Jean Claude Van Damme

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“Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.” — Charlie Dent

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“Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.” — Benjamin Carson

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“I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.” — Jackie Chan

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“Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.” — Warren E. Burger

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