7,738 Quotes About Freedom
- Author John Charles Chasteen
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Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.
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- Author Jeffrey Borenstein
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
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- Author Jennifer Gilmour
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Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we?We look above in the sky at the birds and hope to be free. But the birds make their nests in the trees high above, to protect themselves from predators. Free birds must keep looking over their shoulders the same way all of us have to
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- Author Verliza Gajeles
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I'm falling in love with my own PEACE. My silence is screaming HEALING, like fallen soldiers in a battlefield that aims VICTORY. My silent battle is over. I am now FREE.
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- Author Michael J. Sandel
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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.
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- Author Emma Goldman
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Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.
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- Author Susan Sontag
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Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
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- Author Pericles
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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- Author Stephen R. Donaldson
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It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.
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