Top 1200 Becoming Free Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.
I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free. — © Anthony Ray Hinton
I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.
the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
You are born free. I was born free. The government can take your freedom away, but it did not give you your freedom. It was your human right. The key part of that is you are free first.
I want us to be a country of free ideas, free markets, and a freedom to dream.
I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy. — © Hasan Minhaj
I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.
With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.
When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.
What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.
I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at all.
Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose; because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one; because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary; because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.
The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.
Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.
In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many interest groups but is simply the dominant group, now as whites become - are close to becoming a minority of Americans, are becoming a political interest group. And that's what Donald Trump is playing to. And it's a really dangerous, volatile game.
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what? — © Peter J. Carroll
If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.
Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.
Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you're the product. It was never more true than in the case of Facebook and Gmail and YouTube. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you have, which is your personal data.
The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?
How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones?
At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.
We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free — © Desmond Tutu
We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
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I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them.
I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
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