Quotes About Desire For Freedom

#1. The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush

#2. Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Dalai Lama

#3. The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Condoleezza Rice

#4. Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

Erich Fromm

#5. Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!

H.W.L. Poonja

#6. 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

#7. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

#8. As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

Deborah Tannen

#10. The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).

Piet Mondrian

#11. I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

Judy Woodruff

#12. His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

Thomas Mann

#13. Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Ingrid Newkirk

#14. They went up against white mobs, water hoses, vicious dogs, the Ku Klux Klan, trigger-happy nightstick-wielding police, armed only with their belief in justice and their desire for freedom.

Assata Shakur

#15. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

Misha Glenny

#17. People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Eric Hoffer

#18. The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.

Marty Rubin

#19. To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.

Kenan Malik

#21. Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

Julius Ceasar

#22. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.

Christmas Humphreys

#23. 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

#24. Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#25. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

Salman Rushdie

#26. The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and ( ... ) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

Thornton Wilder

#27. Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#29. There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

Abraham Maslow

#30. When the urge to knock on a door strikes, it's your soul's desire for forward movement. So knock!

Nicole Leigh West

#31. You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention
and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Edith Stein

#34. If we blind them to The Adversary - decrease their desire for The Desire - while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Geoffrey Wood

#35. Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

Herbert Hoover

#36. The night is the means by which we find our heart's desire, our freedom for love. This is not to say that all darkness

Gerald G. May

#37. Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#38. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#40. When desire's sold for freedom/and need exchanged for fame/those choices made in ignorance/turn to bloodstained dreams of shame.

Kim Harrison

#41. I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

Lech Walesa

#42. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.

Ronald Reagan

#43. But in republics there is more vitality, more hatred, and more desire for revenge. The memory of former freedom simply will not leave the people in peace.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#44. Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

Swami Vivekananda

#45. You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

Steven Redhead

#46. There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.

A.E. Samaan

#47. To get to a place where you could love anything you chose
not to need permission for desire
well now _that_ was freedom.

Toni Morrison

#48. Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Wordsworth

#49. What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Dick Gephardt

#50. Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#51. 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

#52. And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of - and a desire for - the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them.

Stormie O'martian

#53. I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.

J.M. Coetzee

#54. The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion.

Harry Browne

#55. In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

Cesare Prandelli

#56. Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders.

Jim Clifton