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Quotes About Freedom

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
~ Vernon Howard
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
~ Vernon Howard
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
~ Vernon Howard
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand
~ Vernon Howard
Inner liberation can be described as a condition in which you no longer take either credit or blame for anything.
~ Vernon Howard
Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.
~ Vernon Howard
I've studied the humans for almost twenty years, Rachner. They've been traveling in space for hundreds of generations. They've seen so much, they've done so much…. The poor crappers think they know what is impossible. They're free to fly between the stars, and their imagination is trapped in a cage they can't even see." The glowing streaks had passed across the
~ Vernor Vinge
The freedom of expression and entrepreneurship that have characterized the Internet to date would be a thing of the past, and the Internet, which has until now resisted the forces of corporate clout, and has maintained open and equal access for individuals as well as for corporate entities, would become a failed dream
~ Vernor Vinge
modern states realized that success did not come from having the largest armies or the most favorable tariffs or the most natural resources—or even the most advanced industries. In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.
~ Vernor Vinge
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
~ Vernor Vinge
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
~ Veronica Roth
We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.
~ Veronica Roth
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
~ Veronica Roth
How come no one ever warned you that life would be fraught with mixed messages? That success, for example, is just another word for a lot more work? That what's called freedom is only the right to do what's allowed? And you'd derive a lot more pride from your friend's achievements than from your own?
~ Veronique Vienne
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.
~ Unknown
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
~ Vicente Fox
Este es el mar El mar con sus olas propias Con sus propios sentidos El mar tratando de romper sus cadenas Queriendo imitar la eternidad Queriendo ser pulmón o neblina de pájaros en pena O el jardín de los astros que pesan en el cielo Sobre las tinieblas que arrastramos O que acaso nos arrastran Cuando vuelan de repente todas las palomas de la luna Y se hace más oscuro que las encrucijadas de la muerte
~ Vicente Huidobro
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
~ Vicki Baum
Oh Marlboro Man, where art thou? Your comeback won't be a minute too soon!
~ Unknown
You want more money so that you can have more freedom to be yourself without worrying about the money. Likewise, you don't want more money to boost your self-esteem. You want more money as an expression of your self-esteem, of valuing your life energy.
~ Vicki Robin
To let go of clutter, then, is not dearth (lack); it's lightening up and opening up space for something new to happen
~ Vicki Robin
Instead of a dark box billionaire, you are probably hoping to become a lighthearted, productive, free person who just happens to never have to worry about money again.
~ Vicki Robin
The ancient Greeks lived more than 2,500 years ago and were responsible for many of the things you take for granted today, such as democracy, freedom of speech, theater, money, the Olympic Games, and crazy politicians.
~ Unknown
But wars—or the threat of war—at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy—Afghan, American, Athenian, contemporary German, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, ancient Theban—that was not an outcome of armed struggle and war.
~ Victor Davis Hanson