938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.” — Boris Yeltsin

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“I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.” — Jimmy Wales

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“Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.” — E. Stanley Jones

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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” — A. J. Liebling

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“Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.” — Alice Duer Miller

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“137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.” — Doc Hastings

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“I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.” — Calvin Klein

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“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.” — Barbara Boxer

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“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.” — Thabo Mbeki

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“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.” — E. M. Forster

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“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.” — Alan Rickman

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“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.” — Will Durant

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“We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.” — Will Durant

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“The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.” — Rollo May

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“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.” — Alfred Adler

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“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.” — Noam Chomsky

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“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.” — Wendell Willkie

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“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.” — James Russell Lowell

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