Freedom To Quotes

#1. In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind

Russell Simmons

#2. There must be freedom while we are still very young - not freedom to do what we like, but freedom to understand very deeply our own instincts and urges.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Frank Knight

#4. More important than the material issue ... the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us ... the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.

Gerard K. O'Neill

#5. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#6. 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

#7. We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

Michael Arndt

#8. You don't mind giving up your freedom?"
Vivian tilted her head. "You always have to give up some freedom to live in any society.

Demitria Lunetta

#9. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

Lillian B. Rubin

#10. When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

Josh Hutcherson

#11. Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.

Thomm Quackenbush

#12. I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#13. You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Pearl Zhu

#14. What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.

Neige

#15. I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.

Elizabeth Bear

#16. Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#17. It was a long time before I realized that you don't have to start right, you just have to start. Put pen to paper, allow yourself the freedom to write badly, to get it wrong, stop looking over your own shoulder.

Abigail Thomas

#18. One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

Helen A. Rosburg

#19. Strong families use the word we a lot, but I is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that we have never followed before. The family message is, We're behind you, so you can be you.

Joyce Brothers

#20. We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov

#21. I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

Duncan Roy

#22. I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Brandon Boyd

#23. The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

George Meany

#24. What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

Morgan Spurlock

#25. At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

John Charles Polanyi

#26. Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

#27. What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

#28. I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger

Nick Carter

#29. He was realizing how cheap are the principles for which we do not have to fight, how easy it is to establish codes when all the while our freedom to talk had been fought and bled for by others.

Louis L'Amour

#30. All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#31. In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.

Evan Daugherty

#32. For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

Martin Gore

#33. The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#34. 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

#35. Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

Tom Verica

#36. There is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for the writer? freedom of invention, freedom to tell the truth, in all its particulars, freedom to imagine new structures.

Andrea Dworkin

#37. We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.

Nel Noddings

#38. We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

Edward O. Wilson

#39. I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Rene Redzepi

#40. I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#41. I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

Stevie Wonder

#42. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Viktor E. Frankl

#43. My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.

E. O. Wilson

#45. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

#46. Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

Dana Rohrabacher

#47. It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state.

David Kelley

#48. I'd never wanted to be with a woman rather than be a priest, I'd wanted to be with Poppy rather than be a priest. I didn't want the freedom to fuck, I wanted the freedom to fuck her. I didn't want a family, I wanted a family with her.

Anonymous

#49. The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

Edward Bernays

#50. All Woolf's work as I know it constitutes a sort of Ovidian metamorphosis where the freedom sought is the freedom to continue becoming, exploring, wandering, going beyond. She is an escape artist. In

Rebecca Solnit

#51. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.

Jonathan Franzen

#52. It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Betty Friedan

#53. We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

Angela Merkel

#54. Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

Debbie Ford

#55. I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.

Richard Shepard

#56. In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

J. William Fulbright

#57. What is the point of all the money in the world if you don't have the freedom to do the things you love?

Anamika Mishra

#58. What point in having the freedom to enter into promises of your own choosing, to forge bonds of your own design, if your only aim is to shatter them?

Ian Tregillis

#59. Love isn't truly the body. Love is freedom to roam the heart and mind of the beloved.

Colleen McCullough

#60. That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

Daniel Okrent

#61. Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

Marty Rubin

#62. People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it's a leader's responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, it's members want to show you their hearts.

Mike Krzyzewski

#63. It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Thornton Wilder

#64. I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

Jeremy Scott

#65. Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

Royal Robbins

#66. In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

Dalai Lama

#67. Recruit entrepreneurial leaders and give them freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals must commit fully to the system you use and be held rigorously accountable for their objectives. You give them freedom, but freedom within a framework.

James C. Collins

#68. Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

Will Barnet

#69. You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

Richard Bach

#70. He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.

Jim Thompson

#71. The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in it. No continuity. Not to mention that a canny would-be tyrant could easily hoodwink the masses into electing him. It was one small step from freedom to dictatorship.

D.P. Prior

#72. freedom. To be able to move three of my limbs, curl up my body, touch my swollen face! To be able to

Lisa Regan

#73. Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

Mike Pence

#74. There are times when God sends thunder to stir us. There are times when God sends blessings to lure us. But then there are times when God sends nothing but silence as he honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity.

Max Lucado

#75. The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

Clarice Lispector

#76. In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.

James Kelman

#77. Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

#78. Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#79. Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.

Max Brooks

#80. There's a freedom to simplicity;
a love that only grow in small spaces
killing yourself ever so slowly
to put a smile on your child's face
from born to fly

K.R. Albers

#81. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Abraham Lincoln

#82. I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.

Lindsay Duncan

#83. All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

Keith Miller

#84. If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Wylie

#85. They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

Don Winslow

#86. Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!-RVM

R.v.m.

#87. I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

Rafael Palmeiro

#88. Freedom to do as we're told under the law!

William Donaldson

#89. A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If

Timothy Zahn

#90. Every day you have the freedom to pursue what you wish to become.

Steven Redhead

#91. Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Viktor E. Frankl

#92. Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

Rajneesh

#93. When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

#94. O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

#95. My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time ... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.

Marsden Hartley

#96. Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Rick Santorum

#97. Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for
liberation.

Martha Graham

#98. Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Judy Blume

#99. Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

Richard Halliburton

#100. Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

John Piper