Freedom Definition Quotes

#1. Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality

Kevin Swanson

#2. There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Kumi Naidoo

#3. Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.

Lee L Jampolsky

#4. A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

Martin Donovan

#6. No practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
-Lord Havelock Vetinari-

Terry Pratchett

#7. Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

#8. I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Richard Price

#9. The new definition of freedom today is self-determination.

John Hope Bryant

#10. There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

John Fowles

#11. The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

Pink

#13. Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Kurt Cobain

#14. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#15. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Jessica Hagy

#16. Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.

Lynsey Addario

#17. What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#18. I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

Morgan Spurlock

#19. We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

B.W. Powe

#20. Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant,
superbly contemptuous of all that is not
itself, and, as they very definition of passion
implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might
intimidiating power. It contains a challenge.
It contains an unspeakable hope.

James Baldwin

#21. The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.

Daniel J. Rice

#22. If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly.

Abdullah Bashir

#23. Think champagne, drink champagne!

Ellen Dean

#24. If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Kamal Ravikant

#25. So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

Jack Welch

#26. Because we are going to love this baby just the way she pops out, and if she's heterosexual, we're just going to tell her, honey, that's just the way you are and you can't help it.

Shukyou

#27. That's not the part that gnaws at Rolf. It's the last part, where Ezekiel says that if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them ... I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.

Ron Suskind

#28. I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much ... .if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.

Noam Chomsky

#29. My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

Neale Donald Walsch

#30. I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

Mary Parker Follett

#31. I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Mark Knopfler

#32. There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Thomas Huxley

#33. Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

Diane Nash

#34. There aren't a lot of humans who speak more than one dialect of Forshan. I know all four of the major ones.'

'Impressive,' Duvall Said.

'I'm good with my tongue,' Dahl said.

'Now who's being forward?' Duvall asked.

John Scalzi

#35. Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Mircea Eliade

#37. Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom

Maddy Kobar

#38. I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

T. Harv Eker