True Freedom Quotes

• True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

  Mortimer Adler

  Freedom, Discipline, Mind

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• True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

  Meryl Streep

  Choices, Understanding

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• True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

  D. A. Carson

  Liberty, Genuine, Please

  D. A. Carson (1991). “The Gospel According to John”, p.350, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

  John Dewey

  Men, Mind, Care

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.

  Alistair Begg

  Word Of God, Captives

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• True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Freedom, Jail

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• The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Freedom, Responsibility

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• True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Want

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  Brigham Young

  Motivational, Freedom, Independence

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• 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

  Honesty, Real, Names

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• Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom? In America we speak of living in a free country. But are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit-it is freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Country, Freedom, Fighting

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• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

  Corliss Lamont

  Character, Self, Acting

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• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

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• True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Motivational, Freedom, Names

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.160, Hackett Publishing

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• True obedience is true freedom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, War, Obedience

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

  Matthew Kelly

  Discipline, World, Modern

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.224, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reading, Humility

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

  Adyashanti

  Desire

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• The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Heart, Equality

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.125

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