Quotes About Lack Of Freedom

#1. Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Emily Greene Balch

#2. If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Jacqueline Novogratz

#4. The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.

Patricia Briggs

#5. It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

Tito Colliander

#6. Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

Milan Kundera

#7. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#8. There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

Alexis Tsipras

#9. If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you're a Democrat.

Grover Norquist

#10. It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

Fernando Perez

#11. Nothing shows our lack of freedom better than our addiction to control.

William McDavid

#12. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

#13. There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. There are degrees of freedom. Complete freedom isn't always good, nor is the lack of it always bad.

Susan Dennard

#15. For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

Roy Peter Clark

#16. Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Kevin Powers

#17. But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times.

James C. Scott

#18. The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Amartya Sen

#19. There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

James Frey

#20. But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the kind that only came with decisions delayed. It was a freedom of inaction.

Lavie Tidhar

#21. To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.

Louise Hay

#22. Freedom can be more expensive than the lack of it, and to prove it we have the prisons of Sweden, which offer better conditions than any slum house of Brazil.

Daniel Marques

#23. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labour, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social and sexual intercourse, none of these appeared to him as lacks, but as freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

V.S. Naipaul

#26. The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

Julian Lincoln Simon

#27. Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out.

Augustine Of Hippo

#28. Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

Sam Altman

#29. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders ... tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Hermann Goring

#30. Our spirit requires freedom in every area of our lives. The barriers that stop our soul from free expression are doubt, guilt, resentment, and thoughts of lack or limitation.

Hina Hashmi

#31. Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians
lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

Nicolas Chamfort

#32. Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.

William Maxwell

#33. Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Max Stirner

#34. Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#35. You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

Hayden Panettiere

#36. Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Robert Anton Wilson

#37. Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Eric Hoffer

#38. As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy.

Martha Stewart

#39. Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

Robert Higgs

#40. 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

#41. You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

Gustav Landauer