To Be Free Quotes

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
- John Lennon

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
- Douglas Adams

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
- Samuel Adams

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free
- Aravind Adiga

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
- Aeschylus

And are you over that fear now?"
"Not yet." We reach the door to the dormitory, and he leans against the wall, sliding
his hands into his pockets. "I may never be."
"So they don't go away?"
"Sometimes they do. And sometimes new fears replace them." His thumbs hook
around his belt loops. "But becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's
learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that's the point.
- 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

That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free.
- Heather Anastasiu

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
- Hermann Hesse

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
- Hannah Arendt

We need to be free if we are to love.
- John Armstrong

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
- Thomas B Macaulay

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
- John Ashcroft

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
- Melina Marchetta

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
- Paul Auster

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!
- Richard Bach

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most of all, he wants Sin to suffer for helping to lock him in there. (Zakar)
Oh, this just gives you the warm and fuzzies, doesn't it? (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher)
So do you. (Julian)
Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
- Ernest Becker

It is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into sleep to be free of trouble for a time.
- John Steinbeck

Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?
- Haruki Murakami

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.
- Haruki Murakami

I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.
- Haruki Murakami

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
- Haruki Murakami

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.
- Howard Berman

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
- Vinoba Bhave

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
- Nellie Bly

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
- Jorge Luis Borges

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
- Barbara Boxer

The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero.
- John Boyd

Information wants to be free.
- Stewart Brand

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
- Paul Bremer

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
- William J Brennan Jr

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
- John F Kennedy

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
- John F Kennedy

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
- Terry Brooks

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.
- Zig Ziglar

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
- Harry Browne

The command to be free is a double bind
- Kim Stanley Robinson

It was impossible to escape her. She provided no natural break in the conversation, and she spoke with such intensity that I would have had to abruptly shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP," punch her, and then run away in order to be free.
- Augusten Burroughs

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains.
--Doroga
- Jim Butcher

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
- Jonathan Lethem

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
- Oswald Chambers

And I love you, my sweet wife. I always will. The words engraved themselves onto my heart and as we stood there, locked in each other's embrace, I knew that I had finally achieved my dreamto be free.
- Katlyn Charlesworth

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
- John H Reagan

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
- Chris Cleave

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
- Bram Cohen

I have tried in my way to be free.
- Leonard Cohen

Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!!
- Leonard Cohen

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
- Socrates

It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law."
- Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)
- Susan Cooper

You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon." "I should've had the choice." "Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
- Carolyn Crane

It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.
- M J Croan

Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree.
- Santosh Kalwar

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
- Peter Davison

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
- Charles Dickens

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
- Franz Kafka

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make
- Franz Kafka

Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling along cliff tops without finding the courage.
- Michael Dobbs

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
- W Paul Young

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
- William O Douglas

The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
- Frederick Douglass

No, really. I free you.'
I don't want to be free.
- Jenny Downham

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
- Andrea Dworkin

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
- Martin Luther King Jr

I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.
- Martin Luther King Jr

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- George Orwell

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
- Epicurus

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
- Helen Fielding

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
- Ralph Fiennes

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
- Carrie Fisher

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.
'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two..
- F Scott Fitzgerald

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.
- Carlos Fuentes

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
- Jostein Gaarder

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
- Leo Tolstoy

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
- Edward Gibbon

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
- Newt Gingrich

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
- Emma Goldman

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the 'destiny' my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

- Claudia Gray

...* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.
- Sylvia Plath

It is more important to be free than to be happy.
- Tom Robbins

It's more important to be free than to be happy.
- Tom Robbins

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
- Tom Robbins

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
- Jasmine Guy

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.
- Joy Hakim

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
- Edith Hamilton

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.
- Kristin Hannah

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
- John Hawkins

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
- Lafcadio Hearn

For an introvert, interacting in a group setting does mean missing out. Where there is too much input, the introvert misses his mind, his subjectivity, his freedom, his very potential. The high-stimulus social environment, the "where it's at on a Friday night," this apparent "more," becomes a prison to the introvert. He can't wait to be freeto get out and away from the noise, the talk, the interference with his inner process.
- Laurie Helgoe

You have to be free to fail in this world.
- J K Rowling

...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?
- Bill Hicks

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
- James P Hoffa

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
- Jean Paul Sartre

[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
- Henrik Ibsen

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
- Miguel Indurain

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
- Robert Jackson

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
- Criss Jami

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
- Bill Janklow

I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.
- Ma Jian

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
- Steven Johnson

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them... Environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they want to connect, fuse, recombine.... They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete.
The single maxim that runs through the book: Where Good Ideas Come From.
- Steven Johnson

You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.
- Denis Johnson

While all men want to be free, some want to be free to think what they want, and other men want to be free from the burden of free thought. These men seek freedom through slavery.
- Jarod Kintz

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal
to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed
to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal
to be forgiven
to be loved
to be free
- Sarah Kane

I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said.
"Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.
- Katharine Kerr

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
- Jack Kevorkian

A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol!
- Barbara Kingsolver

Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful
fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences
it in a useful way.
- Jaron Lanier

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
- U G Krishnamurti

it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free.
- Laure Lacornette

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
- Annie Lennox

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
- C S Lewis

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
- Anne Sullivan Macy

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
- Joseph De Maistre

Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still.
- Gemma Malley

Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.
- David Malouf

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
- Chuck Mangione

How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied.
- Daphne Du Maurier

Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.
- Jonathan Mayhew

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
- William Mckinley

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
- Russell Means

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
- H L Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H L Mencken

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
- Stephenie Meyer

She wanted never again to have to fill another man's bed, telling falsehoods with her body until her mind could no longer track her own desires. She wanted to rid herself of the murk and the mire that had filled her. This life had bound her as effectively as if she were a falcon tied by a leather shackle, and she wanted to be free.
- Courtney Milan

Attention is a resource as abundant as sunlight. It streams outward all day long whether we choose to tap into it or not. By developing conscious focus of our attention, we learn to harness one of the greatest creative powers available to humankind, one that happens to be freely available within ourselves at all times.
- Scott Edmund Miller

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.
- Azar Nafisi

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.
- Audrey Niffenegger

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
- Anne Parillaud

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
- Rosa Parks

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
- Rosa Parks

I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs to know. Secrets in my present that might kill Kim and Chip. I don't want to take my secrets with me when I go. When I pass through the light, i want to be free of everything and everyone.
- Julie Anne Peters

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.
- Marianne De Pierres

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
- Manuel Puig

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
- Ayn Rand

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
- Ayn Rand

It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. that is freedom. This and nothing else.

- Ayn Rand

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
- Ayn Rand

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
- Rick Renzi

I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me.
- Beth Revis

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.
- Luke Rhinehart

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free"
"You are free. You just don't know it yet
- Francine Rivers

I don't want revenge, Caleb. I don't want to end up like you, letting some fucking vendetta run my life. I just want my freedom. I want to be free, Caleb. Not someone's whore...not even yours.
- C J Roberts

The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only patients whose mental disorders were considered treatable could be detained beyond their prison sentences. Psychopaths were considered untreatable and so Michael Stone had to be free.
- Jon Ronson

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.
- Portia De Rossi

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
- Philip Roth

In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.
- Salman Rushdie

I must go live at the ends of the earth and have my child there while I wait for Min and Jing to be freed.
That happy day will come: two men making their way towards a little cottage lost in the open countryside.
The door opens..
- Shan Sa

Even if sexual orientation were a choice, aren't we a country where we're supposed to be free to pursue our happiness, whether we're hetero-, homo-, bi-, trans-, or even a-sexual? To use [an analogy that homosexuality is a vice, like drinking], being antigay is like Prohibition, when a small group of busybodies thought no one should be allowed to drink.
- Alex Sanchez

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Carl Schurz

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
- George Seldes

What should i do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home
- Jeanette Winterson

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
- Jeanette Winterson

To be free means always leaving...or returning to a place where leaves never fall.
- Rich Shapero

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed--Ask for more strenght!
- Shengyan

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.
- Kyung Sook Shin

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.
- B F Skinner

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
- George Soros

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- Baruch Spinoza

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
- Cat Stevens

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
- William Graham Sumner

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.
- Taylor Swift

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.
- Michel Templet

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
- Thucydides

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
- Howard Thurman

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
- Swami Vivekananda

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
- A E Van Vogt

Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.
- Aleksandr Voinov

Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.
- Darnell Lamont Walker

the only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER
- J R Ward

Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had to force yourself to endure my presence." She'd started to sob then. "I've always tried to be clean when I come to you. I spend hours in the tub, washing myself. But I cannot find the dirt that you see."
-Marissa to Wrath
- J R Ward

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- George Washington

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
- Anthony Wayne

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
- Edith Wharton

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.
- Ricky Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.
- Tennessee Williams

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy
- Naomi Wolf