Freedom Quotes - Page 20

• That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Player, Democracy, Gamer

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• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Betrayal, Sacrifice

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Fear, Men

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• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Government, Opinion

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.443, Psychology Press

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• Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

  Brad Thor

  People, Speech, Freedom Of Speech

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2015

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• I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, Progress, Conservative

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.99, e-artnow

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• The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Blood, People

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• We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Want, Tyranny, Dies

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.87, BookBaby

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• Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

  C. Wright Mills

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Choices

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

  Marc Chagall

  Soul, Abstract Painting, Painting

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• Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Stupid, Animal

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• There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

  Cornelia Parker

  Artist, Renegades, Being An Artist

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Patriotic

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

  Horace

  Life, Success, Wise

  "Satires", II. 7. 83 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 878-882), 1922.

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• Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

  Plato

  Democracy, Glory, States

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

  Robin Morgan

  Contagious

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Prove, Ought, Obliged

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• By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Law, People

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D”, p.295

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• That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

  Quintus Ennius

  Liberty, Bears, Breasts

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

  Igor Stravinsky

  Precision, Constraints, Constrain

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aversion, Apostles

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• Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

  Epictetus

  Names, Vices, Slavery

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greed, Want, Materialism

  "Pensées".

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• Nobody's free until everybody's free.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Inspiring, Peace, African American

  "Nobody's free until everybody's free" by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  W. Clement Stone

  Gratitude, Attitude, Negative

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