“To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.”
Freedom is one of those words that everyone values and nobody defines the same way. These quotes explore liberty, independence, autonomy, and the tension between personal freedom and collective responsibility.
“Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.”
“To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.”
“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”
“I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.”
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”
“The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.”
“For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.”
“Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.”
“The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.”
“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.”
“Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.”
“I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.”
“The only certain freedom's in departure.”
“We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.”