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Freedom Quotes
"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 am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please."
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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"Disconnect from society's pressure to conform. Do things your own way."
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"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
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"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."
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"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual."
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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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"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails."
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"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
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"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality."
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"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
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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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"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
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"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."
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"You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing."
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"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"
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"Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom."
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"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."
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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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"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
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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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"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."
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"God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. 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. And in the end, when God asks you: "Who told you to kill one of my children?"And you tell him, "My leader."He will then ask you, "And are THEY your GOD?"
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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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"The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break."
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"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."
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"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."
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"The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers."
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"Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny."
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