Top 44 Not Having Freedom Quotes
#2. Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.
Stephen R. Covey
#3. I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#4. To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
Ethan Canin
#5. Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Alasdair Gray
#6. The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.
Chris Cornell
#7. To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.
Richard Stallman
#8. Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.
Andrea Dworkin
#9. I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
Blake Shelton
#10. When you don't have many friends and you don't have a social life you're kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There's a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you're part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.
Tim Burton
#11. 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
#12. I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
Danielle Fishel
#13. Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.
Frederick Douglass
#14. Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?
Alex Pareene
#15. I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco
#16. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.
Johnny Carson
#17. Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.
Toni Morrison
#18. Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
Rob Bell
#20. When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.
Adam Ant
#21. If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?
Michel Templet
#22. There is so much freedom in not having to choose.
Megan Hart
#23. I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.
Raul Ruiz
#24. Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
Carl Sandburg
#25. I'm like, "Well, damn, that means that I have to carry a flag." I don't have the freedom to just do anything, because I have the political weight of having this last name and my heritage. It's not like I've transcended, Will Smith-style. It takes a lot to pull that off, to cross over, and transcend.
Michelle Rodriguez
#26. Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II
#28. For the prosperous, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
T. Harv Eker
#29. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.
Kathleen Norris
#30. I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.
Jeff Miller
#31. The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
Augusten Burroughs
#32. No, freedom was not lack of responsibilities - it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
#34. The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.
Frank Bettger
#35. If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#36. If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.
Amanda Marcotte
#37. The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.
John Stuart Mill
#38. It is better to accept the inevitable with energy. Well then, if I have not chosen up till now, now I choose. That is freedom. Having chosen, I am free. Somewhere in my memory
Samuel R. Delany
#39. Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do
for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.
Alan Keyes
#40. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.
Charles Frazier
#42. Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#43. As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.
Jeff Foxworthy
#44. The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
Judith Martin
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