George MacDonald Quotes

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

Freedom is from within.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.