Quotes by Freedom When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind. Byron Katie stressfreedomkind So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?" Byron Katie freedomforevertime Would you rather be right or free? Byron Katie judgementfreedomspiritual Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth. Byron Katie freedomacceptanceinspirational There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom. Byron Katie inquiryfreedomsake I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts. Byron Katie motivatedfreedom Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge. C. A. Bartol capricefreedomrooms Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis freedomwisdomreligious I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey. C. S. Lewis being-freefreedompurpose 'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. C. S. Lewis tyrantslibertyfreedom Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. C. Wright Mills freedomopportunityinspirational There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom. Calvin Coolidge freedomgovernmentself The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. Calvin Coolidge constitutiondemocracyfreedom There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. Calvin Coolidge freedommoneymean I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny. Calvin Coolidge independentdestinyfreedom [On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius. Carl Friedrich Gauss freedommensex Democracy means decision by those concerned. Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker freedomdecisionmean Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do. Carl Jung free-willabilityfreedom Without freedom there can be no morality. Carl Jung memories-dreams-reflectionsmoralityfreedom 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. Carl Jung freedomunderstandinglimits«1112131415161718192021»
