Life Management Insights

Management Freedom

• I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap. Spanish Proverb
• Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. --Stephen Covey
• When I discover who I am, I'll be free. --Ralph Ellison
• Without self-knowledge, without understanding the workings of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave... --George Gurdjieff
• You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences. --Sheldon Kopp
• A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. --Albert Camus
• All good things are wild, and free. --Henry David Thoreau
• All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, unalienable rights. --John Adams
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. --Kipling
• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. --Clarence Darrow
• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. --Maria Montessori
• Every generation must wage a new war for freedom. --Conference for Progressive Political Action
• Freedom is not free. --From a wall near the Korean War Memorial 
• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? --Dante Alighieri
• Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. --Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. --Rollo May
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. --Mahatma Ghandi
• Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. --John G. Riefenbaker
• Freedom is the supreme good -- freedom from self-imposed limitation. --Elbert Hubbard
• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. --Bertrand Russell
• Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. --Bergen Evans
• Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. --Rousseau
• God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." --Benjamin Franklin
• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. --Patrick Henry
• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. --Gandhi
• I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. --Nikos Kazantzakis
• If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. --John F. Kennedy
• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. --Edmund Burke
• If you cannot be free, be as free as you can. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. --Patrick Henry
• Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. --Robert Orben
• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. --Richard Bach
• In its truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! --Patrick Henry
• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. --Mark Twain
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. --John F. Kennedy