938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.” — Frank Herbert

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“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.” — Luis Bunuel

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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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“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.” — Nelson Mandela

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“The only certain freedom's in departure.” — Robert Frost

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.” — Karl Popper

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.” — Richard Branson

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“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.” — Nelson Mandela

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“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.” — Howard Zinn

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“B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.” — Thomas Moore

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“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.” — Nelson Mandela

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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” — George Eliot

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“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry

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“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.” — Bertrand Russell

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