Real Freedom Quotes

#1. 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

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

Mike Tyson

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

Savi Sharma

#4. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#5. Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.

Howard Hesseman

#6. Real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

Suzanne La Follette

#7. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.

Tony Gilroy

#9. I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

George Carlin

#10. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

Jim Morrison

#11. You say you want to get rid of the noise, but you and the noise go together. You have to be you without 'you' and all noise will stop. The real You is the formless witness within. The person, the noisy one, is only imagined. To recognize this is Freedom.

Mooji

#12. Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Eric Hoffer

#13. I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.

Eskinder Nega

#14. India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.

Abdul Kalam

#15. 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

#16. Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

James Baldwin

#18. If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)

Sting

#19. Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Nawal El Saadawi

#20. Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#21. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

Auberon Herbert

#22. The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

Noah Webster

#23. I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

Norman Thomas

#24. They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

John Boehner

#25. The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Erich Fromm

#26. Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.

Paul Walker

#27. It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that freedom and that love that I remember from being a child and spending a day drawing without worrying about whether what I'm drawing is real or strange.

Alex Abreu

#29. when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.

Daniel J. Rice

#31. Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

Mary Landrieu

#32. Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#33. Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.

Doug Jones

#35. We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#36. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

Ryan McGinley

#37. Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Erwin McManus

#38. The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.

Oliver DeMille

#39. To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

James E. Rogers

#40. Today there could be laughter and freedom, but soon the magic would end and they would have to go back to the real world. However, there would still always be time to get under Dak's skin.

Alyson Serena Stone

#41. For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Vladimir Lenin

#42. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Ramana Maharshi

#43. I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.

Steven Erikson

#44. You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

Timothy Keller

#45. Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

Nhat Hanh

#46. No opinion in the world is as free
as my soul
blows in every window.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546

Petra Hermans

#47. Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#48. God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

Chogyam Trungpa

#50. Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

John Daly

#51. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#52. If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.

Steve Brown

#53. It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in this
world. The real crunch comes in allowing God the freedom and
trust to act in one's own life. John Indermark

Lynelle Clark

#54. 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

#55. I didn't end up going bankrupt ... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

Vanilla Ice

#56. The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

Erwin McManus

#57. I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

Kathleen Turner

#58. I'm standing for real freedom.

Todd Akin

#59. This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.

Jean Vanier

#60. I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

Rafael Nadal

#61. Where true dignity and real freedom are undermined, real self least exists!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#62. Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#63. Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you.

Melissa Tagg

#64. Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Kenny Loggins

#65. A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

John Stuart Mill

#66. But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Aimee Carter

#67. The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure.

Fennel Hudson

#68. But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley

#69. Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

Guy Finley

#70. Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

Louis Pasteur

#71. I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

Robert E. Howard

#72. I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#73. I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

Leigh Hunt

#74. We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

Bryant McGill

#75. The real purpose of est was to create space for people to participate in life - to experience true space and freedom in life.

Werner Erhard

#76. When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Jacques Prevert

#77. There is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun.

William, Saroyan

#78. Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#79. Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded.

Darryl Pinckney

#80. Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

Gabriel Marcel

#81. I don't want you to be free from something, I simply want you to be free. See the difference: Freedom from is never total; that "from" keeps it entrapped with the past. Freedom from can never be real freedom. Neither can freedom for ever be real freedom; that is a search for a new slavery.

Osho

#82. You see, real freedom is something tangible- it's the American's birthright- but it is also something that can be taken away at a moment's notice.

Alex Gilvarry

#83. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to
letting a person be what he really is.

Ava Dellaira

#84. You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

George Sand

#85. Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#86. There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.

Octavia E. Butler

#87. I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

Peter Weir

#88. The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Henry Steele Commager

#89. If freedom is the basis of life, then love is the basis of real freedom, the capacity to love without bonds is the freedom of the highest order.

Vivek Mehta

#90. No!" I wrestled with the covers as tears fell unchecked down my cheeks. The night terror had seemed all too real. The stinging slap echoed on my skin and I pressed a palm to my tender face. annoyed at my weakness I bundled myself in blankets and padded barefoot to the deck.

Freedom Matthews

#91. Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

Zig Ziglar

#92. True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful.

Martha Beck

#93. It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.

Edward R. Murrow

#94. I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#95. Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

Gayle Forman

#96. Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Dean Kamen

#97. The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

Frank Underhill

#98. The Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new ethos.

Christopher West

#99. The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Denis Diderot

#100. Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.

Dalai Lama