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“If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Moments Goal Freedom Bounds Bondage

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.”

Men Way Mean Long Hard Helping Goal Freedom Gone Achieve Creating Labor Burden Reasonable Long Way Liberators

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

Certain Goal Freedom Healing

Book:The great wall of China: and other pieces

Source: The great wall of China: and other pieces

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8

“The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.”

Humans Individual Goal Freedom Human Beings Liberty Practice Society Western Libertarian Supreme Civil Rights Abiding Individual Liberty Western Society Enlargement

Author:Robert Kennedy

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.”

Ifs May America Faces Goal Freedom Destiny Failing Slavery Cruelty Opposition Tied Our Destiny Tied Up Scorned

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.”

“Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.”

World Might Goal Freedom Willing Victory Gods Will Around The World Expenses Hemisphere Vindication Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.”

“Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.”

Knows World Want Inspirational Suffering Goal Freedom Effects Acceptance Attachment

Author:Byron Katie

“Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana - and that is the goal of life. And it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by you, by your very presence.”

Knows Men Want Whole Able Desire Song Goal Freedom Existence He Man Ultimate Blessed Bliss Significance Bless Celebration Bondage Life Goal Imprisonment Being Blessed Ultimate Freedom

Author:Rajneesh

“Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.”

Ifs Life Is Opportunity Goal Freedom Consciousness Missing Eternal All Things Awake Comes And Goes Life Goal Great Opportunity Flux Great Gifts Missed You

Author:Rajneesh

“I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.”

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.”

People World Ends Whole Goal Freedom Elites Bankers

Author:Aaron Russo