Quotes About Freedom

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

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

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

He envisioned the products of successful analysis as individuals constructively free of repression, able to use their manifold component sexual instincts for their own pleasure and satisfaction.

In Fromm's view, the unconscious is a social creation, maintained because of the deep abhorrence each of us has of our own freedom and the social isolation we fear may result from a fuller expression of our authentic, personal experience.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Holiness is not some nebulous thing. It's a series of right choices. You needn't wait for some holy cloud to form around you. You'll be holy when you choose not to sin. You're already free from the power of sexual immorality; you are not yet free from the habit of sexual immorality, until you choose to be—until you say, "That's enough! I'm choosing to live purely!

Letting go is recognizing when your need to control is controlling you and choosing to release control.

The courage to confess, bring into the light, and openly share one's hidden fears or shameful ways is the sure path to freedom.

We are as sick as our secrets.

God has given us the freedom to make choices. Some choices will be better than others. The worst ones will cause us discomfort and pain, but the pain will not always be the result of God's punishment for sin. When people play with fire, often they feel the heat, and some get burned. The pain is from the fire, not the punishment of God. Sin is like that. Pain is often a result of sin, but not necessarily a punishment for it.

The joy of dropping your heavy load is that it frees you to become the person that God and you—whether or not, at any given time of your life, you know it—most want you to be.

he looked forward to the day when all men could free themselves from the "tyrant of spirits," when all appetites would be controlled, all passions subdued, and "mind, all conquering mind," would rule the world.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

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