Top 100 Quotes About To Be Free
#1. England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#2. To change masters is not to be free.
Jose Marti
#3. Love and hate are both means of emotional control to which we subject ourselves. Once you were done with me, you'd want to be free of the pain of betrayal. Absolutely free.
Ilona Andrews
#4. Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be free and autonomous.
Gay Hendricks
#6. Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
Girolamo Savonarola
#7. That's what she wanted more than anything. To be free of her anger. Wounds.
Melanie Dobson
#8. And even then, she hadn't wanted to die. She'd just wanted it to be over. To be free of it all. For the pain and guilt to be over. And the feeling of being trapped. She might have been able to stand all the rest of it, but not the sense of being caught.
James S.A. Corey
#9. Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.
Dalai Lama
#10. It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.
M.J. Croan
#11. She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.
Laini Taylor
#12. To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!
Dada Bhagwan
#13. Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
George Eliot
#14. I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt
#15. No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
Jewel
#16. There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Ralph Fiennes
#17. If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses ... only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#18. But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the 'destiny' my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
Claudia Gray
#19. How many years can some people exist
before they're allowed to be free ...
Bob Dylan
#20. I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
#21. I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
Jeanette Winterson
#22. Ever noticed how 'freedom' sounds like 'free' and 'dumb'? Educated yourself if you truly want to be free. If you do that, well you are no longer dumb either.
Bashan Savage
#23. Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.
David Malouf
#24. To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.
Mooji
#25. All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.
Shin Kyung-sook
#26. There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#27. Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.
Tariq Ramadan
#29. What if the new political spectrum has on one side those people who want to be left alone, those who want to be free, those who don't hurt people or take their stuff, and on the other extreme of this new scale stands anyone who wants to use government power to tell you how to live your life?
Matt Kibbe
#30. I would like to be free, totaly free ... free like an aborted child.
Emil Cioran
#31. Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
Epictetus
#32. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
Yusuf Islam
#33. His mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot
Raymond E. Feist
#34. I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian
#35. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
Leonid Afremov
#36. Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.
Nita Leland
#37. Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.
Jared Leto
#38. It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.
Azar Nafisi
#39. As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Richard Flanagan
#40. We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.
Brendan Iribe
#41. I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
Maurice Sendak
#42. It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
Samuel Johnson
#43. You are here to be free to be yourself. Never forget that.
Sherrie Campbell
#44. Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.
Brandon Bays
#45. Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
Naomi Wolf
#46. PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#47. There is a saying that only the man who has already committed a crime and repented of it is incapable of that crime; to be free of an erroneous opinion, I myself might add, one must at some time have professed it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#48. Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Joseph De Maistre
#49. Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.
Christopher Fowler
#50. The key to accessing love, joy, peace and compassion is to be free from the dominant state of compulsive thinking. Once we are able to flow into mindfulness and still our thoughts, happiness manifests.
Christopher Dines
#51. The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.
Michel Templet
#52. You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways.
Anne Rice
#53. Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
Baruch Spinoza
#55. Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
Gene Sharp
#57. Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.
Anthony Powell
#58. Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.
Toni Sorenson
#59. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#60. We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#61. While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#62. The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.
Cornel West
#63. In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
Peter Davison
#64. To the girls of the Middle East: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free
Mona Eltahawy
#65. Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.
W. H. Auden
#66. There are those who will oppress you for fear you might learn what it is to be free
Taj Shotwell
#67. To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world,
Robin Williams
#68. Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.
Jewel
#69. The Key to Happiness is to be FREE to BE what you want to BE!-RVM
R.v.m.
#70. Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.
Karyn Henley
#71. If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#72. There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.
John Adams
#73. If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.
Thomas Paine
#74. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
#75. To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.
John Kramer
#76. I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
Dick Cheney
#77. Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#78. Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.
Sara Teasdale
#79. We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
PJ Harvey
#80. You have to be free to fail in this world.
J.K. Rowling
#81. We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#83. What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of
attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#85. Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Bono
#87. Sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
Edith Hamilton
#88. Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free
Aravind Adiga
#89. The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.
Mari Evans
#90. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again".
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#91. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
Kenan Malik
#92. I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.
Rebecca Ann Parker
#93. Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
Jonathan Hennessey
#94. Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.
Chris Hedges
#95. Living off others is a form of bondage - for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.
Cameron C. Taylor
#96. I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but it seemed to have taken my spirit with it, and everything else it could lay its paws on.
Sylvia Plath
#97. Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self.
Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and
consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.
Luke Rhinehart
#98. I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.
Immortal Technique
#99. To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus
#100. People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.
Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
