Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes
Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
Quotes to Explore
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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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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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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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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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
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Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the original text of the gospel three or four or several times over, and change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in the face of criticism. (Against Celsus 2, 27)
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Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
