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Freedom Quotes
"It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect."
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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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"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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"There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
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"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
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"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."
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"Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; 'yesterday' is just a word, not a dictionary."
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"The one, who does not have the 'poison' of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic)."
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"Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering."
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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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"He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay."
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"We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet."
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"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
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"Thristan looked at her with a bewildered look on his face. 'You think to bind me as the new race will be bound?' he asked solemnly. Sorvus smiled. 'I do not think to bind you, my friend; I think to free you."
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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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"Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever."
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"The only right you have with anyone in life is to the right to walk away."
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"There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian."
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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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"I don't want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can't have."
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"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."
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"Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination."
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"Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved."
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"God created people free, but in order to receive true freedom we have to obey God's rules."
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"Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of our lives - which I hope we do anyway. And have a house apart, by the side of no road, with country about & a study & walls of bookcases."
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"There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis."
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"Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don't let opinions change you."
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"A life of living free and taking endless satisfaction from a person's promiscuous meanderings entails intermittently retooling oneself to meet a desired future. Perhaps the most difficult challenge of life is detecting when the ground moves beneath us and then nimbly shifting our mental perspective."
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