FREEDOM QUOTES VII

quotations about freedom

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Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

THICH NHAT HANH

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Men rattle their chains--to manifest their freedom.

ARTHUR HELPS

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What we may call the "literature of freedom" has been designed to induce people to escape from or attack those who act to control them aversively. The content of the literature is the philosophy of freedom, but philosophies are among those inner causes which need to be scrutinized. We say that a person behaves in a given way because he possesses a philosophy, but we infer the philosophy from the behavior and therefore cannot use it in any satisfactory way as an explanation, at least until it is in turn explained. The literature of freedom, on the other hand, has a simple objective status. It consists of books, pamphlets, manifestoes, speeches, and other verbal products, designed to induce people to act to free themselves from various kinds of intentional control. It does not impart a philosophy of freedom; it induces people to act.

BURRHUS FREDERIC SKINNER

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Step out of your cage
And onto the stage
It's time to start
Playing your part
Freedom awaits
Open the gates
Open your mind
Freedom's a state

DEPECHE MODE

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Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

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True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

WALTER LIPPMANN

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Every man
On Freedom's ramparts must a warder be,
To warn of danger when the foe appears;
To meet the onset when the foe assaults.
Else--vain our hopes, and else the temple grand,
Of all our rights, and birth-right liberties,
Ere long will fall, and crumble in the dust,
A ruin, more abject and dire than Rome
Or Carthage was.

ANDREW DOWNING

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Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

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Freedom varies in direct relation to group stability. The greater the group stability, the greater the freedom. The reverse proposition also holds. Hence, freedom is an opportunity enjoyed in times and places where public policy as interpreted by public authority leans away from restraint toward a greater number and variety of choices. A gradual or sudden change in the community boundaries, will be reflected in lessened or augmented limitations.

SCOTT NEARING

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Freedom based on respect for the individual, is an idea whose strength and beauty has remained undimmed down the ages. Other ideas and other words have been twisted and usurped. But freedom resists such treatment. It is the great gift of Western culture to mankind. It remains the driving force of the Western democracies today. It is the source of their strength, of their diversity and of their prosperity.

MARGARET THATCHER

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For He that worketh high and wise.
Nor pauses in his plan,
Will take the sun out of the skies
Ere freedom out of man.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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I hated slavery, always, and the desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze, to fan it into a blaze, at any moment. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past troubled me, and I longed to have a future--a future with hope in it. To be shut up entirely to the past and present, is abhorrent to the human mind; it is to the soul--whose life and happiness is unceasing progress--what the prison is to the body; a blight and mildew, a hell of horrors. The dawning of this, another year, awakened me from my temporary slumber, and roused into life my latent, but long cherished aspirations for freedom. I was now not only ashamed to be contented in slavery, but ashamed to seem to be contented.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

WALTER LIPPMANN

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Freedom ... the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

EMIL CIORAN

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Freedom is the illusion of an imprisoned mind.

LEONID S. SUKHORUKOV

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Freedom is like air, in the sense that any depletion can be suffocating. At such times, the importance of air is self evident and the same is true of freedom.

TSAI ING-WEN

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No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

FAREED ZAKARIA

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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

GARRISON KEILLOR

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