Real Freedom Quotes

Real freedom for women is possible only through Communism.

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

The demand for a statement of a candidate’s religious belief can have no meaning except that there may be discrimination for or against him because of that belief. Discrimination against the holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimination against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of entering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conditions of religious dissension which in so many lands have proved fatal to true liberty, to true religion, and to all advance in civilization.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Real freedom must include economic security.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

I'm standing for real freedom.

A free Cuba, working for the well-being of the people, was the aim of many of the men who supported Castro, but when it became evident that one tyranny was being supplanted by another some of them began to feel again the urge for the real freedom they had hoped for and fought for. Whereupon, they deserted.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

Real freedom will require many changes in the nation’s political and social philosophies and institutions.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

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.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.

The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.