Real Freedom Quotes

• The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

  David Foster

  Inspirational, Freedom, Sacrifice

  David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.

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• The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Real, Lying

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivational, Freedom, Real

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

  Mike Tyson

  Freedom, Real, Mma

  "Tyson 20 years down the line" by Gareth A Davies, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 22, 2006.

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Graduation, Freedom

  "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.

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• This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Real, Choices

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.65, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Freedom, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

  Rollo May

  Real, Stimulus And Response, Ability

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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

  John Daly

  Real, Gun, Iraq

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Integrity, Real

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

  Erwin McManus

  Lying, Real, Discipline

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

  David Foster

  Real, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want.

  William Haines

  Real, Home, Want

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• 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

  Real, Wonder, Subjects

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• One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Passion, Joy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Freedom, Philosophy

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• 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

  Real, Being Free, Likes

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 114, 1973.

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Real, Outcomes

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.59, New World Library

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• To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Real, Pleasant

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• 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

  God, Religious, Real

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• Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

  Sting

  Real, Breaths

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.129, Dial Press

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• Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Real, Mean

  "Herbie Hancock: All That's Jazz". "SoCal Connected" with Michael Okwu, www.kcet.org.

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• 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

  Father, Real, Democracy

  "Democracy Isn’t Freedom" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. February 7, 2005.

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