938 private quotes tagged freedom

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” — Aristotle

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“Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, is mainly in need of freedom.” — Albert Einstein

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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell

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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” — Sigmund Freud

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“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.” — Brian Eno

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“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.” — Walt Whitman

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“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.” — Johnny Carson

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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” — John F. Kennedy

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“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington

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“China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.” — Dalai Lama

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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.” — Lord Byron

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