Your Freedom Quotes - Page 3

• Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

  Richard Stallman

  Community, Social, Solidarity

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• It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

  Erwin McManus

  Freedom To Choose, You Choose

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• You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

  Brian Morton

  Suits Of Armor, Years, Joy

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Force, Situation, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.5, Beacon Press

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• There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Thinking, Wish, Division

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• People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, People, Given

  Source: kalamu.com

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• The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Rest with the glittering stars, George Michael. You've found your Freedom, your Faith. It was your Last Christmas, and we shall miss you.

  Miley Cyrus

  Stars, Missing, Lasts

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• I always say to people, you know - someone goes, oh, well, what are you going to do about terrorist attacks and Muslims? We got to do something. And I go, don't let those in power trick you out of your freedoms by using your fear.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Tricks, Oh Well

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.

  Adam Hochschild

  Russia, Iran, Europe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment which really was the first time - and I started studying .And we had a meeting a month later and I said, "We're gonna get rid of the Johnson Amendment because they're stopping you and our great people from talking."

  Donald Trump

  Talking, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: time.com

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• On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.

  Ted Cruz

  Doctors, Obamacare, Health Care

  "Where Cruz's Speech Took A Turn; Trump Uses Celebrity To Enhance His Brand". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 21, 2016.

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• Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, Art, Giving Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

  Anne Roiphe

  Choices, Needs, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.

  Jenji Kohan

  People, Humanity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Hippie, School

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

  David Hare

  Jobs, Sound, Answers

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• If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hard Work, Exercise, Want

  Source: cinema.com

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• I'm urging all women, I ask them the first time men hit you, please walk away. There is help out there. There are a lot of places that you can go and get help. That's the first step to your freedom and to your life is to walk away.

  LaToya Jackson

  Men, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

  George Monbiot

  Loss, World, Prestige

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• Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where all your power is. That's when you see how you can become a deliberate creator of your life. And when you are a deliberate creator of your life, and you use this law of attraction, you will have a life that is beyond what you can possibly imagine right now.

  Marci Shimoff

  Reality, Law Of Attraction, Feelings

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• None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Love, Country, Government

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• Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

  John Oliver Killens

  Lying, Differences, Justice

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• Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Freedom, Liberty, Greater

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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