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Freedom Quotes
"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
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"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.''Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said."
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"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest."
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"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
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"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
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"This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act."
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"The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."
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"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write."
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"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."
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"The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything."
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"Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost."
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"He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being."
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"She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her."
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"Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom, in freedom alone can there be creativeness."
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"For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have."
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"If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air."
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"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
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"Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. So why is man your god, and not the Creator?"
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"That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting."
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"The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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"The more you let yourself go the less others let you go."
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"God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you."
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"Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself."
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"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic - in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
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"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously."
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"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
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"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
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"All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang."
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"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
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