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Quotes About Freedom

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
~ Aeschylus
It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
~ Oliver Gaspirtz
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
~ Alan Moore
When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?
~ Sergei Dovlatov
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.
~ Sharon Salzberg
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
~ Charles A. Murray
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
~ Tyler Perry
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
~ Regina Brett
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
~ Tacitus
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
~ Epictetus
Read at whim! Read at whim!
~ Randall Jarrell
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
~ Nan Fairbrother
When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.
~ Sally Lloyd-Jones
Break open the forbidden happiness.
~ Rob Brezsny
I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.
~ Bethenny Frankel
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
~ Barack Obama
It is more important to be free than to be happy.
~ Tom Robbins
Every people should persue happiness in their own way.
~ Gregor Strasser
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
~ Jane Austen