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Freedom Quotes
"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
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"There's a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It's a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I'd take advantage of it while you can."
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"Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use with and publicly in all matters."
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"Love frees my thoughts and deeds."
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"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
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"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
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"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate."
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"I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"Until there are so many of them that no one dares to chase them anymore. Until they're an army in themselves. Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal."
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"Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn't matter."
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"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
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"Ours is a non-violent war, It is Dharma YUDDHA."
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"And the scary thing is, I'm on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings."
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"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
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"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
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"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."
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"Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person."
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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I'm happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass.Our parents taught us to be careful with glasses and with our bodies. They taught us that the passions of childhood are impossible; we should not remove men from the priesthood, that people do not perform miracles and that no one goes on a journey without knowing where he wants to go.Break this cup, please, I thought to myself, and release of all these damn misconceptions, the habit you have of only doing that which everyone agrees with."
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"Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies."
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"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
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"Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will."
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"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go."
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"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that."
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"There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need."
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