Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard Baruch

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Carl Jung

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Carl Jung

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

What this is all about is freedom and flexibility for the local school community.

When we'd line up for a game, we had the freedom to go play, ... instead of thinking so much.

Laila Freivalds

We see no reason to join. Freedom from military alliances gives us independence and the possibility to participate in all sorts of international partnership for peace.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Judith Martin

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

serve as the steward of the rights, liberties and freedoms of all Americans for generations to come.

That means we don't have freedom of speech anymore.

Vladimir Lenin

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Evan Williams

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

I knew what type of player Willie was. So I had to let him go, I had to give him the freedom for us to have been successful. I knew that he would be out of position at times, but then he would turn around and make a key play, and everything would be alright.

I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.

John Milton

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants

Jim McMahon

Not at all, I mean I understand what these guys have gone through. Not only them, but the generations before them. Without them, we couldn't have the freedoms that we have today.

Sophia Amoruso

I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.

There's a freedom being in the air. It's a lot of fun.

Casey Wilson

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Kevin Smith

There's much more freedom on the page. You can invoke obscure things that, in a movie, an exec will take out to make it palatable to the mainstream.

This is very much a freedom of speech and freedom of information issue.

Don Marquis

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Claude Bernard

The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

Dalai Lama

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Chrissie Hynde

I pray that their walk to freedom will not be as long as yours was.

Jack Kornfield

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.