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

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

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

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

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

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“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.” — Harry S. Truman

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

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“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” — Erich Fromm

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

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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine

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

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“Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.” — Elbert Hubbard

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