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• The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  Change, Hope, Freedom

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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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Time, Freedom

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

  Aristotle

  Responsibility, Men, Class

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.169, Princeton University Press

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• Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

  Richard J. Foster

  Commitment, Discipline, Gains

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• The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.

  Vandana Shiva

  Responsibility, Rights, Accountability

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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• My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, Speaks Out, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.85, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

  Yves Klein

  Eye, Space, Existential

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

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• In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Independent, Expression, Order

  Lincoln Kirstein (1952). “The Classic Ballet, Basic Technique and Terminology”

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• When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.

  Murray Rothbard

  Men, Civilization, Liberty

  "The Ethics of Liberty".

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• Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Creativity, Absolutes

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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• Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.

  Rajneesh

  Needs, Awareness, Repent

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• Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Keys, Heaven, Secret

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• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

  Peter Coyote

  Nature, Independent, Animal

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• I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  "Letters of H. L. Mencken". Book edited by Guy J. Forgue, 1961.

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• Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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• I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

  Umberto Eco

  Omnipotence, Differences, Choices

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• It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

  Wallace Stegner

  Law, Mind, West

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.22, University of Michigan Press

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