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Freedom Quotes
"If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of your own true desire."
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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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"One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope."
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"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
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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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"What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?"
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"Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills)."
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"James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song."
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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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"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."
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"You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee"."
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"I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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"I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,when something is coming near,I want to be with those who knowsecret things or else alone...I want to unfold.I don't want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie."
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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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"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
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"When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!"
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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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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
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"I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing."
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"Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may."
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"When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self's (Soul's) abode, it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti)."
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"Be kind. Be happy. Be free."
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"A real prison breakfast' I said.'Yeah, but we are free.'And that summed it up."
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"They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp."
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"Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over."
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"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."
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"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
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"Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'."
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