Top 26 Quotes About Wanting Freedom
#1. In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours ... I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#2. Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most peopke find sin. - taxi driver
John Green
#3. J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who "had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent.
Michael Hofmann
#4. I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
George Russell
#5. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
Chief Seattle
#6. LI QUAN Overcome your opponent by calculation.
Anonymous
#7. Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.
Desmond Tutu
#8. I thought of how much they all wanted to be free; how they went mad wanting their freedom; I began to wonder whether it was I that was mad because I was happy to be bound; whether I was alone in knowing that I could not live without the clamour of the voices within me.
Amitav Ghosh
#10. The only thing that is holding us back from repenting is ourselves. There isn't any 'buts' actually.
Norhafsah Hamid
#11. This is a trial about watermelons! Watermelons are invertebrate creatures!' cried Quall.
Kristin Cashore
#12. Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.
Janet Fitch
#13. Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
Robert Harris
#14. I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Bill Gates
#15. Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
Diego Della Valle
#16. A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
Richard Selzer
#17. What happens in the heart, simply happens
Ted Hughes
#19. To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.
Charles Caleb Colton
#20. Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.
Todd Young
#22. If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
Ann Patchett
#23. Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#24. Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
Rumi
#25. Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.
Bulent Ecevit
#26. Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
Orlando Bloom
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