Quotes About Freedom

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

The A is agency—autonomy, freedom, creativity, mastery; the belief that you can impact the world around you. The B is belonging—relationships, community, friends, family; the people that surround and nurture you. The C is cause—a calling, a mission, a direction, a purpose; a transcendent commitment beyond yourself that makes your life worthwhile.

Some argue that it is the very attempt to institutionalize love that destroys it. The more love is rendered obligatory, a duty, whether religious, moral, or otherwise, the more it shrivels up and dies like a plant cultivated under the wrong conditions. "If we really love each other, why do we need a stupid piece of paper?" they ask.

so many of us are leading limited lives not because we have to but because we think we have to.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Having no limitation as limitation

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.

Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the lesser the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.