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Freer Quotes

What actually makes someone feel free.

These freer quotes question the common promise that bigger, richer, and more powerful automatically means freer, weighing that idea against quieter personal experience. Our Better quotes explore more about growth and improvement.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And...

Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

Quotes by Tony Harrison

It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.

Quotes by Sophie Rundle

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

Quotes by Saint Ambrose

Back Quotes

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a...

Quotes by Roger Zelazny

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Quotes by Robert MacNeil

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an...

Quotes by Rob Sheffield

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

Better Quotes

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note'...

Quotes by Preston Manning

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their...

Quotes by Peter Jurasik

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.

Quotes by Miriam Toews

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

Quotes by Mike McCready

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if...

Quotes by Mel Martinez

Doing Quotes

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

Quotes by Mandy Patinkin

Caitlyn seems so much happier and freer in her feminine self.

Quotes by Linda Thompson

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

Quotes by Linda Blair

Tax reform likely will be the first policy action in a Trump administration. A close second will be a thorough repeal and rewrite of Obamacare, restoring a freer market with true consumer choice and competition among providers.

Quotes by Lawrence Kudlow

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

Quotes by Kevin Kline

Feel Quotes

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Quotes by James Madison

Frequently Asked Questions

What claim does the first quote push back against?
It challenges the idea that becoming bigger, richer, and more powerful automatically makes someone freer, treating that promise with some skepticism.
Does age come up in this topic?
Yes, one quote connects getting older with wanting less restriction and more freedom, suggesting a shift in priorities over time.
Is there a childhood memory in this collection?
There is — one recalls feeling like the freest person around at age nine, before adult responsibilities set in.
How does staying consistent lead to more freedom in one quote?
One explains that years of staying on the same career course eventually earned the freedom to make choices based purely on creative instinct.
How does this topic connect to Feel quotes?
The emotional sense of freedom described here overlaps with our Feel quotes, which explore feelings more broadly.

One recalls childhood as the freest a soul ever felt, while another describes years of staying the course finally earning the freedom to make purely creative choices. See our Doing or Feel quotes for more.