Personal Freedom Quotes - Page 4

• 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 this world of possibility.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Space, World

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, People, Security

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• We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Thinking, Islands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

  Mitch Daniels

  States, Private Sector, Protective

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• There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Rights, Government, Iran

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

  Milton Friedman

  Conflict, Individual, States

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Rights, Self, Practice

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• I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Freedom, Liberty, Realist

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• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  Norman Tebbit

  Party, Responsibility, Class

  Speech to Epping Conservatives, November 17, 1969.

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• 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

  Men, Political, Dominion

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Social, Protocol

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Inheritance, Literature, England

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• 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

  Wisdom, Politics, Welfare

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Mobility

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.57, Zola Books

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• 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

  Rights, Government, Groups

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up to healing and to more personal freedom.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Sex, Healing, Keys

  "Enlightened Sex: Women’s Tantric Breathing And Orgasm" by Suzie Heumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.

  Viola Spolin

  Memories, Reality, Discovery

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.

  Woody Harrelson

  Weed, Country, Hurt

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• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Reality, Suffering Of Others, Personal Opinions

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Suffering Of Others, Personal Opinions, Development

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

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