Dalai Lama Quotes

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

Well you don’t have to do it.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

I enjoy making the decisions.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

You do not want bread. You want freedom, because freedom will allow you to get that bread.

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.