Quotes About Having No Freedom

#1. A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman

#3. Freedom of the press, the surest guaranty of the rights of man.

Sarah Vowell

#4. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.

Colleen Mariotti

#5. The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

Jim Carrey

#6. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.

Hina Hashmi

#7. Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.

Sara Quin

#8. Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.

Savi Sharma

#9. We have freedom of the press; I think it's guaranteed in the Constitution or something." The

Morgan Llywelyn

#10. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

#11. We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

Marguerite Moreau

#12. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

Bill Hicks

#13. I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

Milton Friedman

#14. Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet that we can buy the freedom to do it later.

Jake Ducey

#15. Irena went to the window to savor the freedom of solitude.

Milan Kundera

#16. 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

#17. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.

Manoj Arora

#18. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

#19. Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment.

Grigoris Deoudis

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Carl Sandburg

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

Marianne Williamson

#26. The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Dada Bhagwan

#28. No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Paulo Coelho

#29. There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment

Harriet Jacobs

#30. True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards

Dean Cavanagh

#31. Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Toni Morrison

#32. Having a big budget, I have no problem with spending the movie. It's fantastic to have a big budget. It gives a lot of time. It gives a lot of freedom. What's difficult is raising the money beforehand, and then when the investor wants the money back, afterwards.

Jaco Van Dormael

#33. Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

Grover Norquist

#34. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Bella James

#35. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

Ron Paul

#36. Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag
they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

Bill Maher

#37. Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#38. I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.

James K. Glassman

#39. Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Mike Tyson

#40. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

Bill McKibben

#41. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein

#42. Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

Orlando Bloom

#43. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Kat Von D.

#44. God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

Tina Samples

#45. Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and strains toward freedom.

Veronica Roth

#46. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

Sherwood Anderson

#47. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer

#48. Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

Gao Xingjian

#49. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

Milton Friedman

#50. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson

#51. We love our lovin' ... but not like we love our freedom.

Joni Mitchell

#52. I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

Percy Barnevik

#53. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

#54. I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#55. The audience wants control. They want freedom.

Kevin Spacey

#56. You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.

Fennel Hudson

#57. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?

Abhijit Naskar

#58. Those who flee freedom live on
but their souls die in fear
Those who thirst for freedom die
but their souls live on in resistance

Xiaobo Liu

#59. I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

Shinzo Abe

#60. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Vincent Van Gogh

#61. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Patricia Sampson

#62. Easy payments, easy lease, easy approval. Debt is very EASY to get into, but makes it HARD to live victoriously.

Bradley Vinson