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Freedom Quotes
"The perfection of loneliness is you can do whatever you want by yourself."
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"Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned."
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"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."
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"Travel is rebellion in its purest form. - we follow our heart- we free ourselves of labels- we lose control willingly- we trade a role for reality- we love the unfamiliar- we trust strangers- we own only what we can carry- we search for better questions, not answers- we truly graduate- we, sometimes, choose never to come back."
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
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"We should tend our freedom wisely."
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"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."
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"Reduce the influence of religion upon your life."
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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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"If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow."
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"Where there is no 'superior', no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have."
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"When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves."
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"All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion."
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"The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!"
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"It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again."
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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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"The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental."
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"If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell."
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."
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"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
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"Let it go with love, you will never lose anything."
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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 true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."
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"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
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"You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think."
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"Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?"
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"You go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave..."
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"One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, 'Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed?' And in retrospect, maybe it's not the question that's terrifying. Maybe what's terrifying is the answer."
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"Dance to the beat of your own drum, whether the world likes your rhythmic movements or not."
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"To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don't do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!"
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"How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"
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