A lack of freedom is no longer, in most developed societies, the problem. Our downfall lies in our inability to make the most of the freedom that our ancestors painfully secured for us over three centuries. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: freedom difficulty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being—free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies—and therefore you can find out what religion is. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: freedom religion education dogma Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must find out for yourself what it is you love to do. Don’t think in terms of choosing a vocation in order to fit into society, because in that way you will never discover what you love to do. When you love to do something, there is no problem of choice. When you love, and let love do what it will, there is right action, because love never seeks success, it is never caught up in imitation; but if you give your life to something which you don’t love, you will never be free. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: love freedom vocation career society self-discovery right action success Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: justice freedom responsibility equality ownship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect. —Daniel Ellsberg More about this quote Tags: freedom privacy USA liberty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. —Alan Paton More about this quote Tags: freedom progress democracy surrender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. —Daniel J. Boorstin More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. —Nelson Mandela More about this quote Tags: freedom prison hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. —Herbert Agar More about this quote Tags: truth freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: freedom improvement opportunity self-improvement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: history freedom dogma USA creed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The function of freedom is to free somebody else. —Toni Morrison More about this quote Tags: freedom sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: freedom thinking speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email