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Freedom
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis /Zorba the Greek/
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech.
Herbert Hoover
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
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To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.
Robyn Davidson /Tracks/
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Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.
Doris Lessing /The Golden Notebook/
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
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You are free, and that is why you are lost.
Franz Kafka
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert Heinlein
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