Top 57 Quotes About Giving Up Freedom
#1. The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
Larry Niven
#2. I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.
Naomi Klein
#3. Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.
Ronald Reagan
#4. What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion?
Jeffrey Steingarten
#6. Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.
Linda Stone
#7. 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
#8. They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog.
Ally Condie
#9. We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.
Suzanne Falter-Barns
#10. 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
#11. Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.
Peter Coyote
#12. Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
Benjamin Franklin
#13. You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.
Judy Blume
#14. If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.
Alexander Hamilton
#16. [T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#17. Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.
John Stossel
#18. The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.
Jarvis Cocker
#19. To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#20. Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for hell.
Carolyn Jessop
#22. If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
Thomas Sowell
#23. There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
Connie Willis
#24. I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
KRS-One
#25. He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage."
"Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!"
"Her freedom!"
"I think her much at liberty.
Helen Halstead
#26. My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.
Tom Althouse
#27. Fear isn't the answer. If we're afraid of everything, then we're afraid to do anything, and that means we're giving up our freedom.
Matthew Mather
#28. Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.
Tom Althouse
#29. We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.
William Cohen
#30. There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.
Rachel Caine
#31. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
Marva J. Dawn
#32. Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
Mooji
#33. Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.
Raf Simons
#34. I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.
Brian McKnight
#35. Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#37. People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
Mother Teresa
#39. Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom
Albert Camus
#40. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!
Susan B. Anthony
#41. Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.
Mark Twain
#42. Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Chuck Schumer
#43. I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.
Ron Paul
#44. Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.
Ronald Reagan
#45. Let's ask the Lord to give us a Jubilee strategy for this nation! Below, I have an article related to the Freedom Fighters and Triumphant Reserve that the Spirit of the Lord is rising up in days ahead. That is why we need Apostolic Hubs (Freedom Outposts).
Chuck Pierce
#46. We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
Alain De Botton
#47. New Rule: President Bush must stop acting like WE'RE the idiots. He gives speech after speech, and the theme is always the same; 'What part of freedom don't you get, you morons?'. I'll answer that for you Mr. President. The part where you give it to people by blowing them up.
Bill Maher
#48. When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
James Thurber
#49. Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream.
M.L. Stedman
#50. We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.
Seth
#51. We must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.
Jessica Lange
#52. The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
Rush Limbaugh
#53. 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
#54. It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog ... - Cassia
Ally Condie
#56. Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#57. The United States didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It's the reason we are here today. This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don't think you give up this right by simply taking a job.
Bobby Jindal
