Quotes of: Personal-freedom Keyword

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It...

Bonnie Langford

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

Tom Smothers

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ...

Os Guinness

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

Jalal Talabani

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Nelly Sachs

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Roald Dahl

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an asp...

Witness

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

George Pataki

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Earthly Powers

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

When one person got involved, it took everybody else along. I went to jail first, but my entire family soon joined the Movement. One time, Faith & I ended up at home w all the babies from 2 households, because the mamas & the other older sisters were...

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Mitt Romney

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Carre Otis

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Lance Loud

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Rose Wilder Lane

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Benazir Bhutto

We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to bec...

Homeschooling: A Family's Journey

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fun...

Rowan Atkinson

Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly." Freedom says, "Even not to choose is to choose...

Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety