Os Guinness Quotes

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

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

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

Freedom resides within the soul.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

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

Self Emancipation

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.