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Freedom Quotes
"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
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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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"I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids, he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go. He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned."
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
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"Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right."
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"Love frees my thoughts and deeds."
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"The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm."
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"Ours is a non-violent war, It is Dharma YUDDHA."
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"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
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"Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
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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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"Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn't matter."
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"All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day."
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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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"The only way to set yourself free is to meet each new challenge relatively."
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"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
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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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"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that."
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"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
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"You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing."
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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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"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!"
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"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom."
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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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"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
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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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"Freedom is not about having no limitations, but about rising above them."
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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
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"Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness."
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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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