Top 100 Quotes About Personal Freedom
#1. The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#2. Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.
Staci Backauskas
#3. Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
Muriel Spark
#4. Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
Pope Benedict XVI
#5. I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.
Wallace Stegner
#6. We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.
James A. Michener
#7. America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
Sylvia Earle
#8. The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.
Richard Allen Epstein
#9. We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
Caspar Weinberger
#10. I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in the world of possibility.
Laura Owens
#11. I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
Sara Sheridan
#12. There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us
these are just the hazards of being free.
David Foster Wallace
#13. Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the heart of the one set free, it will have little value. A treasure that costs nothing is a treasure that is easily neglected and lost.
Bryan Davis
#15. Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Karel Capek
#16. To be in community is to be in personal, interdependent relationship, and it comes with a price: our illusion of independence, our freedom from obligation. You can't have it both ways. If you want community, you must be willing to be obligated, dependent, tied, attached. You will
Charles Eisenstein
#17. I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
Martin Sheen
#18. Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom.
Deborah Sandella
#19. It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are
Allanah Hunt
#20. Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#21. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.
Wilhelm Reich
#22. You do pay a price for your Financial Freedom, but it is far lesser than what you pay for a Lifetime Slavery.
Manoj Arora
#23. Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.
Thomas Piketty
#24. True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
Bryant H. McGill
#25. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
Faye Wattleton
#26. For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
#27. Freedom with responsibility is the only sound basis for personal happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#28. I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
Nelson Mandela
#29. If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
Margaret Atwood
#30. I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
James Lovelock
#31. Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.
Ernie J Zelinski
#32. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.
Richard Ebeling
#33. Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.
Angela Bushman
#34. Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.
Pope John Paul II
#35. And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
Don Nickles
#36. Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary - Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Don't look back.
Sheila Burke
#37. The sovereign way to personal freedom is to help determine the forces that determine you.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#38. Probabally One Of The Greatest Keys Of Humanity Is Education. Because Education Leads To Personal Empowerment ... Empowerment Leads To Freedom ... Freedom Leads To Peace ...
Peace Always Leads To A Brighter Humanity!
Timothy Pina
#39. The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.
Gian Kumar
#40. In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Anthony Daniels
#41. Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
Sloane Crosley
#42. Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot do it and not pay the price for it.
John Patrick Hickey
#43. The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that you alone own the criticism and blame.
Ron Houston
#44. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.
Anonymous
#45. How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
Roger Stone
#46. You will come to understand how they work, their dedication and the personal sacrifices they make. For these are truly the people who stand guard on the walls of freedom, while the rest of us sleep safely in our homes.
Tom Clancy
#47. ... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency.
Rogers Brubaker
#48. Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey
#49. If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.
Martin Jacques
#50. The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.
Larry R. Thompson
#51. The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true
Renae A. Sauter
#52. 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
#53. Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#54. Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#55. To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life.
Jack Canfield
#56. I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.
Maureen Brady
#57. The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. Freedom ... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!
Joseph P. Sekula
#59. To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Maya Lin
#60. Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life ...
Jimmy Carter
#61. Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo
#62. You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
Charlton Heston
#63. To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Herbert Read
#64. On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.
Whittaker Chambers
#65. A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom ... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
Neal Boortz
#66. We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#67. Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
James Q. Wilson
#68. Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.
Ron Baratono
#69. We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States - Governor Gary Johnson.
Scott Boman
#70. If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.
Wilhelm Reich
#71. My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.
Tony Robbins
#72. The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
Pope John Paul II
#73. Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
James Bryce
#74. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#75. He proposes, as a final solution to the question, the division of mankind into two unequal parts. One-tenth is to receive personal freedom and unlimited rights over the remaining nine-tenths.6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#76. Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.
David L. Schindler
#77. Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others.
Pope Francis
#78. The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
Max Stirner
#79. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps
William J. Clinton
#80. But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.
Paolo Gentiloni
#81. Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
Daniel Greenberg
#82. The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
Adolf Hitler
#85. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them ... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.
Michael A. Singer
#86. Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.
Eckhart Tolle
#87. Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences.
Leeann Smith
#88. We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.
Barbara Becker Holstein
#89. The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.
Lloyd Kaufman
#90. A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.
Robin S. Sharma
#91. Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.
Sabrina Childress
#92. The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
Rollo May
#93. Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.
Charles F. Glassman
#94. We can't remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.
Maajid Nawaz
#95. It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
Bill Hicks
#96. Lyft is enabling an exciting new model of freedom and personal mobility, as evidenced by its millions of satisfied users.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#97. There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity, in which a man inevitably follows laws laid down for him.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.
Newton Lee
#99. Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.
Louis Chevrolet
#100. My personal freedom, confirmed by the liberty of all, extends to infinity.
Mikhail Bakunin
