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Freedom Quotes
"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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"Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do."
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"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
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"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
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"Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform."
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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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"Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose."
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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
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"In the fight for freedom, the slightest of discord weakens the unity and invincibility of the mighty force at work."
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"Man is not free unless government is limited."
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
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"Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking."
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"Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life."
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"For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."
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"What are you doing? Her voice shook."Whatever I want, sweetheart."
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"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
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"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."
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"Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny."
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"It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election."
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"I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized."
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"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
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"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
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"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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"A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid."
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"Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier " here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home."
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"Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever."
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"The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness."
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"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see."
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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
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"He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him."
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"We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us."
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"Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other."
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"The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she'd taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, 'I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must feel. It seemed to me I did know what it felt to have one's liberty curtailed, but she blazed up at me. 'So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?"
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"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."
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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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"I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech."
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