Francis Bacon Quotes
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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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?
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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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.
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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.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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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.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
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We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
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I think it would be nice to be a prince.
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What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
