Francis Bacon Quotes
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
Gary Johnson
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
Forest Whitaker
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
Macy Gray
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
Nazanin Boniadi
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
Dana Perino
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Gary Ackerman
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I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
Bill Keller
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The value set by her people on the freedom and sanctity of the individual, on justice and fair play, on mercy and tenderness towards the weak, and their dislike of lawless violence and their capacity to tolerate, forget and forgive have been, for all England's past mistakes and faults, a very real factor in human evolution.
Arthur Bryant
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Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.
George Rodrigue
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
Philip James Bailey
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My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
Bernie Mac
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Francis Bacon
