Being Free quotes
105 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away."
"The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being."
"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free."
"When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free."
"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
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"The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him."
"True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is."
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them."
"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
"That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual."
"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free"
"We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free."
"He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free."
"There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free.""
"I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t..."
"The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him."
"I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful."
"Having money is a way of being free of money."
"Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so."
"Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord."
"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
"Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed."
"There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom."
"True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something."
"I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited."
